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Rodzina / Karen Cushman.

Cushman, Karen. (Author).

Summary:

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0618133518 (alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: 215 p. ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Clarion Books, c2003.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-215).
Formatted Contents Note:
Chicago, 1881 -- Somewhere in Illinois or Iowa -- Omaha -- Grand Island -- Western Nebraska -- Cheyenne -- Prairie east of Cheyenne -- Wyoming territory -- Thousand miles from Omaha -- Ogden, Utah territory -- Nevada -- Virginia City -- California.
Subject: Polish Americans > Juvenile fiction.
Orphans > Juvenile fiction
Orphan trains > Juvenile fiction.
Survival > Juvenile fiction
West (U.S.) > History > 19th century > Juvenile fiction.

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Related Resource: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hm031/2002015976.html

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