Author

Publication

2003 - Clarion Books, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

53,750 words, Guess

Page Count

215 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2002015976
  • Better World Books9780618133512
  • Open LibraryOL3557209M

Classifications

  • DDC[Fic]
  • LCCPZ7.C962 Ro 2003
  • LCCPZ7.C962Ro 2003

Description

A twelve-year-old Polish American girl is boarded onto an orphan train in Chicago with fears about traveling to the West and to the hazards of a new life.

First Sentence

ON A COLD MONDAY MORNING in March, when a weak, pale sun struggled to shine and ice glistened in the cracks in the wooden street, a company of some twenty-two orphan children with stiff new clothes and little cardboard suitcases boarded a special railway car at the station near the Chicago River.

Description

A twelve-year-old Polish American girl is boarded onto an orphan train in Chicago with fears about traveling to the West and a life of unpaid slavery.

Subjects

Genres

  • Fiction
  • Juvenile fiction

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  • RodzinaClarion Books2003-01-01
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