Would you ever run off to join the army, leaving your family behind?
Nettie and Nellie Crook: Orphan Train Sisters by Susan Hill writing as E. F. Abbott, with illustrations by Clint Hansen is a fascinating novel for young readers, featuring black-and-white illustrations and photographs throughout.
What would you do if your country was counting on you to deliver a message?
What happens when everything you know is suddenly ripped away? This is the fate of Mary Jemison, a fifteen-year-old frontier girl living in Pennsylvania in 1758. How does Mary find the will to carry on?
Can you imagine being placed in an orphanage while your parents are still alive?
Twin sisters Nettie and Nellie Crook are taken away from their disfunctional parents in 1910 when they are only five years old and placed in an orphanage--at six they are put on the orphan train by the Children's Aid Society and moved from ...
A fictionalized account of the sixteen-year-old girl, trained to handle a musket, who rode alone over forty miles in New York to bring out the militia before the Battle of Ridgefield.
This book has Common Core connections. The Based on a True Story books by E. F. Abbott are exciting historical fiction stories about real children who lived through extraordinary times in American History.