Poor as Church Mice: Children of the Orphan Trains - Softcover

Miller, Roselyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1420882872 ISBN 13: 9781420882872

Publisher: AuthorHouse, 2006

Synopsis

In 1870 in New York City, Nora, an almost thirteen year old, has become the sole support of her three siblings, Amanda, five, Charley, nixie and Nils, eleven.The Civil war has taken her father's life and tuberculosis has caused her mother to be bedfast.Nora has always heard, even as a young child, the history of her family and the promise her mother had made of keeping the family together as a family 'no matter what'. Nora's family is suddenly exposed as four young children struggling to stay together in their home with their sick mother and has to bow to the inevitable of being placed in a large orphanage 'while their mother is hospitalized.The day Nora hears her small sister declare herself an orphan, is the day she makes a decision that her family will ride an 'orphan's train' west to Nebraska to live with their father's relatives.Nora soon learns they are no more of a family in Nebraska than they were in the orphanage in New York City. Aunt Augusta has plans for the three older children and the adoption of Amanda. Nora once again takes her family on the road looking for a place they can live as a family.

About this title

About the Author

Roselyn Ogden Miller through her love of children and children's stories has shared many hours reading to children of all ages. It was through this love that she first became interested in writings of the children who were placed on trains and sent hundreds of miles away from their natural families to find new homes and become part of a. family again in the two books POOR AS CHURCH MICE, Children of the Orphan Trains and POOR AS CHURCH MICE Book II.In sharing the first story of Poor as Church Mice in various elementary schools in Nebraska, South Dakota and Texas she learned how the children are being encouraged to create their own fiction. When a published author visit the school whether they have a story for the upper or lower grades the teachers ask that their students be allowed to meet a 'real live author'. It was through this request that Mrs. Miler created PRARIE ROSE AND THE BEADED ANT HILLS. The story of a small American Indian girl who was created to represent all small American Indian children.

Edition details

• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1420882872
• ISBN 13: 9781420882872
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 164