Product Description

In 1856, having traveled with his young sister from New York to a foster home on a farm in Missouri, ten-year-old Danny plots to get his foster father to send for and marry his mother.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #153764 in Books
• Published on: 1996-05-21
• Released on: 1996-05-21
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 160 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780440226963
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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From the Publisher
The Orphan Train Quartet follows the story of the six Kelly children, whose widowed mother has sent them west from New York City in 1856 because she realizes she cannot give them the life they deserve.

Danny and his younger sister Peg feel lucky to be adopted by kind Alfrid and Olga Swenson in St. Joseph, Missouri. But when Olga dies suddenly, the children fear they will lose their wonderful new family.

Danny comes up with an ingenious plan so they won't be separated, and which might even bring his real family back together. Then Danny runs into a phony doctor he knew from New York City, who recognizes him. Can Danny protect himself and those he loves from the evil doctor and still make his plan work?

Customer Reviews

A Place to Belong
This is a great book. I wouldn't recommend reading this book before: A Family Apart, Caught in the Act, and In the Face of Danger. It is the last book a Quartet about the Kelly children. Unless you don't want to read the first three I suggest you read A Place to Belong last.

Couldn't put it down
It was souch a great book I finished it in one night! Although it was sad, It was very interesting. You really got to know the characters. I hade to get the three other books as soon as I could! One night I stayed up till one in the morning to finish one of the books!

Heart breaking, but surprising.
It will break your heart but it will make you want to read more.