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Rodzina
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- ISBN: 044041993X
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Physical Description:
print
215 p. ; 20 cm. - Publisher: New York : Random House, 2003.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-215). |
Summary, etc.: | 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. In 1881, 12-year-old Rodzina Clara Jadwiga Anastazya Brodski wishes she didn't have to board the orphan train in Chicago. But she has no home, no family, and no choice. Rodzina doesn't believe the orphans are on their way out West to be adopted by good families. She's sure they will become slaves to strangers. Anyway, who would ever adopt a large, tough, stubborn girl of Polish origin? As the train heads west, all Rodzina has is a small suitcase and her family memories from the past. Will Rodzina ever step off the train to find the family that deep in her heart she's searching for? |
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Subject: | Polish Americans Juvenile fiction Orphans Fiction Orphan trains Fiction West (U.S.) History 19th century Fiction |