Book
Orphan Train Rider: One Boy's True Story
- Published
- 1996
- Genre
- Biography
- Pages
- 80
- Words
- 12507
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 6.1
- AR interest level
- MG — middle grades, 4–8
- Lexile
- 960L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 8–17
By recounting the story of one boy and his brothers, this book discusses the placement of over 200,000 orphaned and abandoned children in homes throughout the Midwest from 1854 to 1929.
Collections
ALSC Notables
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780395698228
- ISBN-10
- 0395698227
Tags
ALSC NotablesBiographyFamily Life-BrothersFamily Life-OrphansHistory-American/U.S. HistoryNonfictionPeople-OrphansUnited States of America