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A Family ApartA Family Apart

A Family Apart1995

Joan Lowery Nixon

4.0(1)on Hardcover

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When their widowed mother can no longer support them, six siblings are sent on the orphan train by the Children's Aid Society of New York City to live with farm families in Missouri in 1860.

Details

First published
1995
OL Work ID
OL137736W

Subjects

Family, fictionFamily, juvenile literatureFoster home careFictionBrothers and sistersChildren's fictionFriendship, fictionFoster home care, fictionSiblings, fictionMissouri, fiction

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