[LM_NET] HIT: ELEM: Books on orphans

[Cindy Lund Moreno <cindy55twu@YAHOO.COM>]

Hello everyone!  Thank you for your help!  Here is the Hit to my question on books 
about orphans:


Andrea Warren wrote ORPHAN TRAIN RIDER, which is based on the true story of one 
boy's ride on an orphan train in 1924. It has great photographs and facts







How about Rodzina by Karen Cushman?

The Orphalines series???





Joan Lowry Nixon wrote a series called Orphan Train Adventures.  It's

historical fiction about children sent west because their mother had no

means to care for them.  The reading level is about 6.  And Anne of

Green Gables (also a series) is an orphan.



How about Pictures of Hollis Woods?



How about: Train to Somewhere, by Eve Bunting. Reading level is 3.7

 Boxcar Children series



Ruby Holler by Creech

Dave at Night by Levine

James and the Giant Peach by Dahl

Pictures of Hollis Woods by Giff

Surviving the Applewhites by Tolan

Hi!  Some that come to mind are the Harry Potter series, Maniac Magee (Spinelli), 
Milkweed (Spinelli), Rodzina (Cushman), Matilda Bone (Cushman), A Single Shard 
(Park--I seem to remember he was an orphan), When Zachary Beaver Came to Town 
(Holt), Bud, Not Buddy (Curtus), and Bandit's Moon (Fleishman).  Then there are the 
"half-orphan" books like Esperanza Rising, Artemis Fowl, the Sammy Keyes series, 
the Tale of Despereaux, and Because of Winn-Dixie.  Plus there are the Cinderella 
varients--Just Ella and Ella Enchanted.  I'd love to see a HIT--maybe I could do a 
book display with the Baudelaires and the others.

Joan Lowery Nixon has a set of Orphan Train series.  Also, there's an

amazing book about kids in foster care called Where I'd Like to Be (but I can't 
remember the author....  it's the person who wrote Dovey Coe)

Meyer, L.A._Bloody Jack._Harcourt, 2002 [0-15-216731-5]

Jacky is an orphan surviving by living with a gang in London.



Hi, Cindy. Several years ago you could find a series called The Orphan

Train. I think they were by Joan Lowry Nixon, but it has been awhile

since I have been in an elementary, so I am not sure of the author.



FIC AND

           Andrews, Julie.  Mandy.  [1st ed.].  New York : Harper &

Row,1971].  Lonely for a place of her own, a ten-year-old orphan creates a secret 
home in a deserted cottage.



FIC AVI Avi.  Crispin : The Cross of Lead.  New York : Hyperion,

c2002.Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned

peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and

meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret.



FIC BRA

           Bragdon, Elspeth.  That Jud!  New York : Viking, 1971, 1957.

Jud was an orphan living in Spruce Point, Maine and he

seemed to always be getting into trouble. When there was a real

emergency though, Jud rose to the occasion and gained

his self-respect, as well as the respect of the

townspeople.



FIC BUR

           Burnett, Frances Hodgson.  A little princess.  New York :

Platt & Munk, [1967].  An imaginative, wealthy, good little

girl retains her royal composure even when banished to the

attic as a charity pupil after her English boarding school

mistress hears that her father has died in poverty.



FIC BUR

           Burnett, Frances Hodgson.  The secret garden.  Boston, MA :

D.R. Godine, 1987.  Ten-year-old Mary comes to live in a

Lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid

Cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.



FIC DAH

           Dahl, Roald.  The BFG.  1st American ed.  New York : Farrar,

                Straus, Giroux, 1982.  Kidsnatched from her orphanage

by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who spends his life blowing

happy dreams to children, Sophie concocts with him a plan to

save the world from nine other man-gobbling cannybull

giants.



FIC DEN

           Denenberg, Barry.  The journal of William Thomas Emerson, a

Revolutionary War patriot.  1st ed.  New York : Scholastic,                1998.  
William, a twelve-year-old orphan, writes of his

experiences in pre-Revolutionary War Boston where he

joins the cause of the patriots who are opposed to the

British rule.



FIC DOU

           Douglas, Kirk.  The broken mirror : a novella.  1st ed.  New

York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c1997.

After the Nazis destroy his family, twelve-year-old Moishe

Gives up his Jewish faith, calls himself Danny, and is taken

To New York where he tries to make the best of his life in

A Catholic orphanage.



FIC FEL

           Felder, Deborah G.  Anne of Green Gables.  New York : Random

House, c1994.  Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent

by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and

sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make                        
an indelible impression on everyone around her.



FIC GAE

           Gaeddert, LouAnn Bigge.  Hope.  1st ed.  New York, N.Y. :

Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c1995.  In 1851

Orphans Hope and John are placed in a community of Shakers,

Where they encounter a way of life that is strange yet                 comfortable.



FIC HAA

Haas, Dorothy F.  The secret life of Dilly McBean.  New York:                
Scholastic, 1988,c1986.  After being orphaned at an early

age and spending years in boarding schools, Dilly begins a

new life in a real house in a small town, developing

secret magnetic powers under the tutelage of a kindly

professor, until he is kidnapped by a madman who plans to control

the world with a computer.



FIC HES       Hest, Amy.  When Jessie came across the sea.  1st U.S. ed.Cambridge, 
MA : Candlewick Press, 1997.  A thirteen-year-old

Jewish orphan reluctantly leaves her grandmother and

immigrates to New York City, where she works for three

years sewing lace and earning money to bring Grandmother to

the United States, too.



FIC LEN

L'Engle, Madeleine.  Meet the Austins.  New York : Farrar,

Straus Giroux, 1997.  The life of the Austin family is changed

By the arrival of self-centered young Maggy Hamilton,

Orphaned by the sudden death of her pilot father.



FIC LUN

Lunn, Janet Louise Swoboda, 1928-.  The root cellar.  New

York : Puffin, 1996.  Twelve-year-old orphan Rose, sent to

Live with relatives on a farm in Canada, ventures into her

aunt's root cellar and finds herself making friends with

people who lived on the farm more than a century earlier.



FIC MEE

           Meehan, Thomas.  Annie : an old-fashioned story.  New York :     
Macmillan, c1980.  Unexpected sources help a spunky orphan

in the search for her parents who have been missing

since 1922.



FIC MEL

           Melnikoff, Pamela.  The star and the sword.  1st pbk. ed          
Philadelphia : Jewish Publications Society, c1994.

When a massacre of Jews in twelfth-century England leaves

Elvira and Benedict orphaned, they set out to find an uncle

They hardly know and have many adventures on their journey,

including meeting Robin Hood.



FIC MUR

           Murphy, Jim.  The journal of James Edmond Pease, a Civil War

Union soldier.  1st ed.  New York : Scholastic Inc.,

1998.

                James Edmond, a sixteen-year-old orphan, keeps a

journal of his experiences and those of "G" Company which he

joined as a volunteer in the Union Army during the Civil War.



FIC NAY

           Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds.  Jade green : a ghost story.  1st

                Aladdin Paperbacks ed.  New York : Aladdin Paperbacks,

2001,c1999.  While living with her uncle in a house haunted

By the ghost of a young woman, recently orphaned Judith

Sparrow wonders if her one small transgression causes

Mysterious happenings.



FIC PUL

           Pullman, Philip, 1946-.  The ruby in the smoke.  1st Knopf

pbk. ed.  New York : A. Knopf, 1997.  In nineteenth-century

London, sixteen-year-old Sally, a recent orphan,

Becomes involved in a deadly search for a mysterious ruby.



FIC REE

           Reeder, Carolyn.  Shades of gray.  New York : Avon, c1989.

At the end of the Civil War, twelve-year-old Will, having

Lost all his immediate family, reluctantly leaves his city

Home to live in the Virginia countryside with his aunt and

The uncle he considers a "traitor" because he refused to

Take  part in the war.



FIC RYL

           Rylant, Cynthia.  The islander : a novel.  1st ed.  New York

: DK Ink, c1998.  Living with his grandfather on an island

Off British Columbia, orphaned ten-year-old Daniel feels

Deep loneliness until the night he meets a mermaid whose

Identity he tries to learn.



FIC SNY

           Snyder, Zilpha Keatley.  Gib rides home.  New York :

Delacorte Press, c1998.  Despite the harsh treatment he has

endured at the Lovell House orphanage, ten-year-old Gib Whittaker

manages to maintain his hopeful outlook when he is

"farmed out" to help with the horses of a wealthy banker in

1908.



FIC STR

           Streatfeild, Noel.  Dancing shoes.  1st Bullseye Books ed.

New York : Bullseye Books, 1994.  After her mother's death,

Rachel and her adopted sister Hilary are taken in by

Aunt Cora, who runs a dancing school where Rachel's spoiled

cousin Dulcie is the star pupil.



FIC TRI

           Tripp, Valerie.  Changes for Samantha : a winter story.  1st

ed. Madison, Wis. : Pleasant Co., c1988.  When she

discovers that Nellie and her sisters have been sent to an

orphanage,Samantha, now living with her aunt and uncle in New

York City, tries to help her friends as much as she can.



FIC Voi

           Voigt, Cynthia.  The Callender papers.  New York : Fawcett,

1983. In nineteenth-century Massachusetts, orphan Jean,

employed to sort out the family papers of a reclusive artist,

becomes curious about the mysterious, long-ago death of his

wife and the subsequent disappearance of their young child.



FIC WAR

           Warner, Gertrude Chandler.  The Boxcar children.  Niles,

Ill. : Albert Whitman & Co., c1977.  The Alden children are

orphans and determined to make it on their own. They set out to

find a safe place to live and discover an old, red boxcar.

Against all odds, they make in into their home and

Become the Boxcar Children.



FIC WHI

           White, Ellen Emerson.  Voyage on the great Titanic : the

diary of Margaret Ann Brady, R.M.S. Titanic, 1912.  New York :

Scholastic, 1998.  In her diary in 1912, thirteen-year-old

Margaret Ann describes how she leaves her lonely life

in a London orphanage to become a companion to a wealthy

American woman, sails on the Titanic, and experiences its

sinking.





Cindy Lund Moreno, Elementary Librarian
Loretto Academy Elementary
El Paso, Texas
cindy55twu@yahoo.com
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