Orphan trains trilogy (Al and Joanna Lacy)
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In Wyoming in 1874, Mary, Johnny, and Lizzie Marston, along with 60 other children, line the platform at the Cheyenne train station as Dan and Clara Forbes and other locals contemplate taking one child home to a new life. Will they be separated? Will they be wanted? Will the West offer a better life than the one they left behind?
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c2003
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In New York City in 1876, ten-year-old Teddy Hansen is left at the orphanage by his dying mother. When police officer Justin Smith is killed by bank robbers, his son Johnny is taken there, too. As overcrowded conditions threaten to force them into the streets, the two boys, along with abandoned twins Donna and Deena Mitchell, board an orphan train soon leaving for the West.
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c2003
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Young Dane Weston's dream is to become a doctor. But it will take more than just determination to realize his goal, once his family is murdered and he ends up in a colony of street waifs begging for food. Then he ends up mistaken for a murderer himself and sentenced to life in prison. Now what will become of his friendship with the pretty orphan girl, Tharyn, who wanted to enter the medical profession herself? Does she feel he is anything more than...
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