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Gr 4–7—Using one young man's journey as her focus, Warren tells about the amazing, sometimes heart-warming, and often tragic westward journey (Houghton Mifflin, 1996) that more than 200,000 children took on the Orphan Train between 1854 and 1930 in search of families. Although he was not technically an orphan, Lee Nailling's father placed him and his brothers in an orphanage after their mother's death. Dressed in new clothes, Lee rode the train from Upstate New York to Tex...Log In or Sign Up to Read More