Nettie and Nellie Crook : orphan train sisters / by Susan Hill writing as E.F. Abbott ; with illustrations by Clint Hansen.

Title:

ISBN:

9781250068354

Personal Author:

Abbott, E. F.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication Information:

New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2016.

Physical Description:

161 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.

Summary:

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 New York City to Kansas, ending up in a household where they are treated more as servants than children.

Program Information:

Accelerated Reader MG 4.7 3 186429

Corporate Subject:

Children's Aid Society (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction

Geographic Term:

New York (N.Y.) -- History -- Fiction.

Kansas -- History -- Fiction.

New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951 -- Fiction.

Kansas -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.

Subject Term:

Orphan trains -- Fiction

Orphans--New York (State)--New York -- Fiction.