A Family Apart
Orphan Train Series, Book 1
قطار یتیم سری، کتاب ۱
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فرمت کتاب
audiobook
تاریخ انتشار
2013
Lexile Score
820
Reading Level
3-4
نویسنده
Barbara Carusoناشر
Recorded Books, Inc.شابک
9781470356613
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- اطلاعات
- نقد و بررسی
- دیدگاه کاربران
نقد و بررسی
September 1, 1987
This first book of the Orphan Train Quartet tells the story of Frances Mary, 13, eldest of the six Kelly children. Life in New York's grim 19th century slums consists of hardship for the poor but honest Kelly clan. When widowed Mrs. Kelly feels that she is no longer capable of providing for her children, she sends them west on the Orphan Train, to be adopted by farm families. Frances masquerades as a boy in order to be adopted with Petey, the brother she promised her mother she would protect. The practical difficulties Frances faces in maintaining this disguise are handled in an amusing and thoughtful manner. Since Frances and Petey are adopted by a couple with strong abolitionist sympathies, it should come as no surprise that Frances, just days after her arrival on the farm, finds herself helping two runaway slaves on the Underground Railroad. Though the plot is predictable and sometimes overly sentimental, and the Kelly family lapses into stilted Irish syntax, the rapid succession of high-spirited adventures make for lively reading. Ages 10-up.
Nineteenth-century "orphan trains" often separated poverty-stricken East Coast parents from their beloved children, in hopes of giving them a better life in the Great American West. A FAMILY APART carries the listener back to the mean streets of New York, circa 1860. Narrator Barbara Caurso brings 13-year-old Mary Frances Kelly to life is this heartwarming--and sometimes heartbreaking--story. M.C. (c) AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine
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