Orphan Trains: An Interactive History Adventure

by Elizabeth Raum

Overview

In the early 1900s, adults hoped to find parents for homeless city children by sending them west on trains. Most of these children had no idea whether they would find kind adoptive families or be forced to work like slaves. Will you: • Head west after living on the streets of New York City? • Search for a home for you and your three younger siblings? • Try to care for yourself and your baby sister on your own?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781429654791
Publisher:	Capstone
Publication date:	12/01/2010
Series:	You Choose: History Series
Pages:	112
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.40(d)
Lexile:	630L (what's this?)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Elizabeth Raum has written over two-dozen nonfiction books for young readers, including a biography of Louis Armstrong for Capstone Press. Over the years, she has worked as a middle school and high school English teacher, an elementary school librarian, and a college library director. Elizabeth Raum has written many nonfiction books for children. Two of her Capstone You Choose books, Orphan Trains: An Interactive History Adventure (2011) and Can You Survive Storm Chasing? (2012), are Junior Library Guild selections. Elizabeth lives in Michigan with her husband, Richard.

Table of Contents

Street rats — From newsboy to farm boy — "Will anyone want us all?" — The baby train — The end of the orphan trains.