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.
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Rodzina
by Karen Cushman
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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.
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Polish Americans, Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Orphan trains, Survival, Orphans, History, Children's fiction, Polish americans, fiction, Orphans, fiction, West (u.s.), fictionPlaces
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Rodzina
January 2005, Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media
Unknown Binding
in English
0606332421 9780606332422
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-215).
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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.
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