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Train to Somewhere
Language: en
Pages: 37
Authors: Eve Bunting
Categories: Juvenile Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-04-17 - Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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A young girl hopes to find her mother as she rides an Orphan Train to find a new life out west in “this finely crafted, heart-wrenching story” (Publishers W
Orphan Train Rider
Language: en
Pages: 84
Authors: Andrea Warren
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Discusses the placement of over 200,000 orphaned or abandoned children in homes throughout the Midwest from 1854 to 1929 by recounting the story of one boy and
Gleam and Glow
Language: en
Pages: 37
Authors: Eve Bunting
Categories: Juvenile Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-08-01 - Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Inspired by real events, master storyteller Eve Bunting recounts the harrowing yet hopeful story of a family, a war--and a dazzling discovery.
Trains, Jesus, and Murder
Language: en
Pages: 216
Authors: Richard Beck
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-11-05 - Publisher: Fortress Press

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"Saints and sinners, all jumbled up together." That's the genius of Johnny Cash, and that's what the gospel is ultimately all about. Johnny Cash sang about and
Night Train to Turkistan
Language: en
Pages: 254
Authors: Stuart Stevens
Categories: Travel
Type: BOOK - Published: 1988 - Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press

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The first account of travel in Chinese Turkistan, closed to foreigners since 1949, shows a world where bureaucratic hazards often loom larger than geographical