orphan trains

Illustrations and rhyming text tell the story of a sister and two brothers who become orphans, are taken in, and make a journey aboard an orphan train to separate new homes.

Text and photos describe the use of "orphan trains" during the nineteenth and early twentieth century in America: the practice of sending homeless or neglected city children west on trains to find homes with new families--yet they were often chosen to be farmhands rather than family members.

Explores the life and humanitarian efforts of people like Charles Loring Brace and President Theodore Roosevelt in helping the many homeless children of New York between the 1850s and the 1930s as well as what some of these children went on to be after they were given a second chance riding the orphan trains across the country.

A history of the system which found homes for 200,000 orphans in New York and other states, especially in the West, from 1854 to 1930.

Examines the history of the Children's Aid Society, the organization that sponsored the orphan train program through which an estimated 200,000 orphans found homes in the years between 1854 and 1929, and presents the stories of nine participants in the program.

Discusses the placement of over 200,000 orphaned or abandoned children in homes throughout the Midwest from 1854 to 1929 by recounting the story of one boy and his brothers.

Nineteen-year-old Frances Mary Kelly, herself an orphan train rider six years before, returns to New York and agrees to escort a group of orphans west to find new homes.

After eleven-year-old orphan-train rider David Howard settles with a strict Missouri farm family, his best friend, an ex-slave, is threatened by the growing presence of the Ku-Klux Klan.

A clumsy and unattractive twelve-year-old, Aggie is sure no one will want to adopt her when she rides the orphan train out west, but when she meets the eccentric Bradon family she begins to have some hope. Includes historical information about orphan trains and the woman's suffrage movement.

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.