[LM_NET] HIT: ELEM: Part 2 books on orphans

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

A second part to the HIT.  There might be repeats.  I didn't have a chance to go 
through it yet.  Thanks!


Rodzina by Karen Cushman!



Ruby Holler, Rodzina, Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker, Jason's Gold,

And Twin the the tavern



Joan Aiken's Wolves of Willoby Chase - an oldie but a goodie.



A terrific story about 'home children,' in Scholastic's Dear Canada

Series, is "Orphan at My Door" by Jean Little. Though not about orphans, her other 
title in that series is fabulous ("Brothers Far From Home"). In the same series, 
Maxine Trottier's "Alone in an Untamed Land" is about an orphaned girl that travels 
to New France (Fille du Roi).



http://www.scholastic.ca/dearcanada/authors/

http://www.bpl.on.ca/kids/books/series/dearcanada.htm



"The Several Lives of Orphan Jack" by Sarah Ellis  - grade 3 up enjoy

this story - older kids appreciate the humor more.



How about the orphan train stories? There is one by

Verla Kay, Train to Somewhere by Eve Bunting, another

one by Andrea Warren and the Orphan Train adventures

by Joan Lowery Nixon. There's also Secret Garden,

Crispin, A Single Shard, Heidi, Ruby Holler, Ella

Enchanted, and Gib Rides Home.



Ruby Holler - Sharon Creech (great book)



How about A Family Apart by Joan Lowery Nixon (the

orphan train series) or The Pinballs by Betsy Byars.



Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff.  Excellent read! Have

the

tissue box ready!

Orphan Train series by Joan Lowery Nixon

Hope was Here by Joan Bauer (lives with an aunt)

Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinnelli

Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson

Here's some more excellent reads:

The BFG by Dahl

Crispin by Avi

Dave at Night by Gail Carson Levine



B NAI

           Warren, Andrea.  Orphan train rider : one boy's true story.

                Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1996.  Discusses the

Placement of over 200,000 orphaned or abandoned children in homes

throughout the Midwest from 1854 to 1929 by recounting

the story of one boy and his brothers.



E WAL

           Wallace, Barbara Brooks, 1922-.  Peppermints in the parlor.

1st ed.  New York : Atheneum, 1980.  Sent to San Francisco

To live with her beloved aunt and uncle, newly orphaned

Emily expectantly enters their once-happy mansion only to

Find unimaginable horrors.



F BRO

Brookins, Dana.  Alone in Wolf Hollow.  New York : Houghton

Mifflin/Clarion, (1978?).  Two orphaned brothers come

To live with their uncle in Wolf Hollow and stumble onto a

murder case.



F BUR

Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924.  The secret garden.

Philadelphia : Lippincott, 1962.  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.



F CHR

Christopher, Matt.  Dirt bike runaway.  1st ed.  Boston :

Little Brown, c1983.  A shy, unhappy sixteen-year-old with a

Talent for working with motorcycles runs away from his foster

Home and gets involved with a variety of people, both bad

And good.



F FLE

Fleischman, Sid, 1920-.  The midnight horse.  1st ed.  New

York : Greenwillow, c1990.  Touch enlists the help of The

Great Chaffalo, a ghostly magician, to thwart his

great-uncle's plans to put Touch into the orphan house and swindle

The Red Raven Inn away from Miss Sally.



F HEU

Heuck, Sigrid.  The hideout.  New York : Dutton, c1988.

Rebecca, living in an orphanage in Germany during World War II,

Finds her only refuge with a boy hiding out in a nearby

cornfield, where their imagination lets them retreat into a

fantasy world of their own making.



F HOW

Howard, Ellen.  Edith herself.  1st ed.  New York :

Atheneum, 1987.  Orphaned by her mother's death, Edith goes to

Live with her older sister and her dour husband in their

Stern Christian farming household, where the strain of

adjusting seems to aggravate her epileptic seizures.



F KEY

Key, Alexander.  Escape to Witch Mountain.  Philadelphia :

Westminster, 1968.  An orphaned brother and sister,

possessors of unusual powers, run away to the mountains

where they are accused of witchcraft.



F TAL

Talbot, Charlene Joy.  An orphan for Nebraska.  1st ed.  New

York : Atheneum, 1979.  Orphaned on the journey to America

In 1872, a young Irish boy finally makes his way to

Nebraska, where he goes to work for a newspaper editor and learns

To do the work of a printer's devil.



F TRI

Tripp, Valerie, 1951-.  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.





F WRI

           Wright, Betty Ren.  The ghosts of Mercy Manor.  New York :

Scholastic, c1993.  Twelve-year-old Gwen, an orphan who

comes to live with the Mercy family, discovers that the

house is haunted by the ghost of a sad-looking young

girl and is determined to solve the mystery behind her         appearances.



FIC BLA

           Blackwood, Gary L.  The Shakespeare stealer.  1st ed.  New

York : Dutton Children's Books, c1998.  A young orphan boy is

ordered by his master to infiltrate Shakespeare's

acting troupe in order to steal the script of "Hamlet," but he

discovers instead the meaning of friendship and

loyalty.



FIC BUN

           Bunting, Eve, 1928-.  Train to Somewhere.  New York :

Clarion Books, c1996.  In the late 1800s, Marianne travels

Westward on the Orphan Train in hopes of being placed with a

Caring family.



FIC DAH

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

Straus, Giroux, 1982.  Kidsnatched from her orphange by

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

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

Save the world from nine other man-gobbling cannybull

giants.



FIC DOW

Dowell, Frances O'Roark.  Where I'd like to be.  New York :

Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2003.  A group of

Foster children build a home of their own.



FIC GAR

Garland, Sherry.  Valley of the Moon: the diary of Maria

Rosalia de Milagros.  New York : Scholastic, 2000.  The

1845-1846 diary of a 13 year old Maria, servant to the wealthy

Spanish family which took her in when her Indian mother died.

Includes a historical note about the settlement and

Early history of California.



FIC GOU

Goudge, Elizabeth, 1900-.  The little white horse.  New York

:Puffin Books, 2001, c1946.  In 1842, thirteen-year-old

orphan Maria Merryweather arrives at her ancestral home

in an enchanted village in England's West Country, where

she discovers it is her destiny to right the wrongs of her

ancestors and end an ancient feud.



FIC JAC

Jackson, Louise.  Gone to Texas from Virginia ot Adventure.

Austin, Texas : Eakin Press, 2004.  Ephriam Darter, an

orphan in 1850, is determined to move from Virginia to

Texas and has a life changing adventure on the way. Includes

A recipe for Skillet Bread.



FIC KIN

Kindl, Patrice.  Goose chase.  New York : Scholastic, 2002.

Rather than marry a cruel king or a seemingly

dim-witted prince, an enchanted goose girl endures imprisonment,

capture by several ogresses, and other dangers, before

learning exactly who she is.



FIC MUR                              Murphy, Jim, 1947-.  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 PHI

           Philbrick, W. R. (W. Rodman).  The journal of Douglas Allen

Deeds : the Donner Party expedition.  1st ed.  New York :

Scholastic, 2001.  Douglas Deeds, a fifteen-year-old

orphan, keeps a journal of his travels by wagon train as a

member of the ill-fated Donner Party, which became stranded in

the Sierra Nevada mountains in the winter of 1846-47.



FIC WAR

           Warner, Gertrude Chandler, 1890-.  The hockey mystery.

Morton Grove, IL : A. Whitman, 2001.  When a professional

Hockey player comes to Greenfield with plans to build an ice

skating rink, the Alden children suspect that someone

in town wants to stop the project.



FIC WAR

           Warner, Gertrude Chandler, 1890-.  The candy factory

mystery. Morton Grove, Ill. : Whitman, c2002.  When the Aldens

have the chance to work at a candy factory, they try to find

out who is sabotaging the candy and why.



FIC WAR

Warner, Gertrude Chandler, 1890-.  The ghost town mystery.

Morton Grove, IL : A. Whitman, 1999.  While visiting a

Ghost town, the Alden children encounter a mystery involving

A run-down motel and a woman who may be a ghost.



FIC WAR

Warner, Gertrude Chandler, 1890-.  The mystery in the mall.

Morton Grove, Ill. : Whitman, 1999.  The Alden children

Help out a store owner at the Hope Harbor mall and discover

That someone is tampering with the shipments.



FIC WHI

           White, Ruth, 1942-.  Tadpole.  1st ed.  New York : Farrar,

Straus and Giroux, 2003.  In rural Kentucky in 1955, Serilda

Collins, single mother of four lively girls, discovers

That her orphaned nephew is being subjected to brutality.





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