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Author:

Cushman, Karen.

Title:

Rodzina / Karen Cushman.

Publisher:

Dell,

Copyright Date:

c2003,

Description:

215 p. ; 20 cm.

Subject:

Polish Americans.--Juvenile fiction.
Polish Americans.--Fiction.
Orphans--Fiction.
Orphan trains.--Fiction.
Survival.--Fiction.
West (U.S.)--History--19th century.--Fiction.

Notes:

Reprint: Originally published: New York : Houghton Mifflin, c2003. "A Dell Yearling Book" Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-215).

Contents:

Chicago, 1881 -- Somewhere in Illinois or Iowa -- Omaha -- Grand Island -- Western Nebraska -- Cheyenne -- Prairie east of Cheyenne -- Wyoming territory -- Thousand miles from Omaha -- Ogden, Utah territory -- Nevada -- Virginia City -- California.

Summary:

A twelve-year-old Polish American girl is boarded onto an orphan train in Chicago with fears about traveling to the West and a life of unpaid slavery.

ISBN:

9780440419938 (pbk.)
044041993X (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)60660613

Locations:

BBPC251 -- Roy R. Estle Memorial Library (Dallas Center)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

30SX663 -- Osage High School (Osage)

AXPF626 -- Oskaloosa Public Library (Oskaloosa)

DKPC353 -- Sheffield Public Library (Sheffield)

MDPA423 -- Steamboat Rock Public Library (Steamboat Rock)