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Summary
Mrs. Kelly
decides that she should send her children out to the West because she cannot
take care of all of them herself. Frances Mary does not understand why her
mother would send them away but she promises that she will take care of the
smallest child, Petey. They were heading to Missouri and Ms. Katherine Banks
and Mr. Andrew McNair were trying to help the children find homes for them to
live in and parents for them to adopt. Since Frances promised her mom that
she would take care of Petey, she dressed up as a boy so if the farm that
they were living in wanted the boys to do a different chore then the girls
she wouldnÕt have to be separated from her little brother.
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Characters and Setting
v Mrs. Kelly- Mrs. Kelly is the
mother of six orphans and she has to give them away because she canÕt take
care of them all on her own. Mrs. Kelly learned to love her children and
cherish every moment she has with them. When she finally gets her children
back from the orphan train she knows they are all happy to see her and that
she will try to keep her family together.
v Frances Mary- Frances Mary
promises her mother that she will take care of her smallest brother and that
she will do anything to protect him from harm
The setting is in
the orphan train.
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About The Author
Joan Lowery Nixon is the author of more than
eighty books for children and young adults. She is a three-time winner of the
Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award and the recipient of many ChildrenÕs Choice
Awards. Popular books for young adults include A Family Apart, Caught
In the Act, and A Place to Belong, the other books in the Orphan
Train Quartet, for which she received two
Golden Spur Awards, the Hollywood Daughters trilogy, as well as High Trail to Danger and its companion
novel, A Deadly Promise.
Mrs. Nixon is currently working on her newest
series -- Ellis Island novels. Mrs. Nixon and her husband live in Houston,
Texas.
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Book Review
I thought this book was really good. It had
action, adventure and it helped you learn about history. I thought it was
interesting when all of the orphans starting splitting up and how intense it
must have been for them. It was very sad when all of the orphans were
splitting up, but it was very suspenseful and it made you wonder if they were
ever going to see each other again. I thought this book was a very well-written
story.
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