Orphan in America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Orphan in America write by Nanette L. Avery. This book was released on 2014-08-04. Orphan in America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bringing back to the twenty-first century an epic novel of substance and style, Orphan in America is a compelling fiction that follows three generations across vast distances and the impact of a dark and unfamiliar episode of America's past; the Orphan Train. Set in the 1800s, Orphan in America extends far beyond the genre of historical fiction. This odyssey begins with Alex, an innocent young boy, living in the slums of New York. Like thousands of other children who were transported from overcrowded cities on the Eastern Seaboard during the mid-1800s, Alex is removed from a life of poverty, put on the Orphan Train, and sent to start a new life in America's heartland. But despite the best intentions of a project meant to improve children's lives, Alex's world is forever changed as he is snatched away from his loving yet impoverished parents. Alex is quick to see the advantages of adapting to the ways of the rugged pioneers of Missouri-at least on the outside. As the reader soon learns, his life is intertwined with the tale of Will and Libby Piccard's flight from rural England and their relationship with the powerful Cambridge family of Baltimore. Murder, intrigue, and misfortune collide, unraveling the relentless efforts by Alex's father to reunite his family and the young boy caught up in a scheme of deception. Avery's expressive language and fully realized staging enrich this literary work with an authenticity that brings the saga to life. Unforgettable characters engage readers in a quest to discover more details about the mysterious threads of this fictional tapestry.
The Charleston Orphan House
The Charleston Orphan House - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Charleston Orphan House write by John E. Murray. This book was released on 2013-01-03. The Charleston Orphan House available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "In The Charleston Orphan House, distinguished economic historian John E. Murray uncovers a world about which previous generations of scholars knew next to nothing: the world of orphaned children in early national and antebellum America. Employing a unique cache of records, Murray offers a sensitive and sympathetic account of the history of the institution - the first public orphan house in the US - while at the same time making it clear that Charleston's beneficence toward white orphans was inextricably linked to the racial ideology of the city's leaders. In Murray's hands, the voices of poor white families in early America are heard as never before." -- Peter A Coclanis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. -- Book jacket.
Alone in the World
Alone in the World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Alone in the World write by Catherine Reef. This book was released on 2005. Alone in the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the almshouses of the 1800s to the foster home programs of the present, find out about our country's evolving attitudes toward its neediest children.
American Orphan
American Orphan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Orphan write by Jimmy Santiago Baca. This book was released on 2021-03-31. American Orphan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This picaresque novel by acclaimed writer Jimmy Santiago Baca follows Orlando Lucero after he is released from a lifetime of imprisonment, first in an orphanage and then in prison, and learns to live on the outside, ultimately finding his way as a writer and artist.
Orphan Trains
Orphan Trains - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Orphan Trains write by Marylin Irvin Holt. This book was released on 1994-02-01. Orphan Trains available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "From 1850 to 1930 America witnessed a unique emigration and resettlement of at least 200,000 children and several thousand adults, primarily from the East Coast to the West. This 'placing out,' an attempt to find homes for the urban poor, was best known by the 'orphan trains' that carried the children. Holt carefully analyzes the system, initially instituted by the New York Children's Aid Society in 1853, tracking its imitators as well as the reasons for its creation and demise. She captures the children's perspective with the judicious use of oral histories, institutional records, and newspaper accounts. This well-written volume sheds new light on the multifaceted experience of children's immigration, changing concepts of welfare, and Western expansion. It is good, scholarly social history."—Library Journal
