The Resource A family apart, Joan Lowery Nixon
A family apart, Joan Lowery Nixon
Resource Information
The item A family apart, Joan Lowery Nixon represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Chemeketa Cooperative Regional Library Service (CCRLS).This item is available to borrow from 4 library branches. This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
Resource Information
The item A family apart, Joan Lowery Nixon represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Chemeketa Cooperative Regional Library Service (CCRLS).
This item is available to borrow from 4 library branches.
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- Summary
- When their widowed mother can no longer support them, six siblings are sent on the orphan train by the Children's Aid Society of New York City to live with farm families in Missouri in 1860
- Language
- eng
- Label
- A family apart
- Title
- A family apart
- Statement of responsibility
- Joan Lowery Nixon
- Subject
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- trueFamilies
- trueFugitive slaves
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- Juvenile works
- Missouri
- Missouri -- Fiction
- trueMissouri -- History -- 19th century
- Missouri -- Juvenile fiction
- trueOrphan trains
- truePoor children
- trueTeenage girls
- trueThirteen-year-old girls
- trueBoy impersonators
- trueBrothers and sisters
- Brothers and sisters
- Brothers and sisters -- Fiction
- Brothers and sisters -- Juvenile fiction
- trueChildren's stories
- Fiction
- Fiction
- Foster home care
- trueFoster home care
- Foster home care -- Fiction
- Foster home care -- Juvenile fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- When their widowed mother can no longer support them, six siblings are sent on the orphan train by the Children's Aid Society of New York City to live with farm families in Missouri in 1860
- Award
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- Spur Award for Juvenile Fiction, 1987.
- Virginia Readers' Choice Award for Middle School, 1992.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 096180
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Nixon, Joan Lowery
- Dewey number
- [Fic]
- Index
- no index present
- Interest level
- Middle Grade
- LC call number
- PZ7.N65
- LC item number
- Fam 1987
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel
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- 5
- 8
- Reading level
- 5.4
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Series statement
- Orphan train quartet
- Series volume
- 0001
- Study program name
- Accelerated Reader
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Foster home care
- Brothers and sisters
- Missouri
- Foster home care
- Brothers and sisters
- Missouri
- Brothers and sisters
- Foster home care
- Missouri
- Target audience
- juvenile
- Label
- A family apart, Joan Lowery Nixon
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocm15696832
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Extent
- 162 pages
- Isbn
- 9780440226765
- Lccn
- 87012563
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)15696832
- Label
- A family apart, Joan Lowery Nixon
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocm15696832
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Extent
- 162 pages
- Isbn
- 9780440226765
- Lccn
- 87012563
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)15696832
Subject
- trueFamilies
- trueFugitive slaves
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- Juvenile works
- Missouri
- Missouri -- Fiction
- trueMissouri -- History -- 19th century
- Missouri -- Juvenile fiction
- trueOrphan trains
- truePoor children
- trueTeenage girls
- trueThirteen-year-old girls
- trueBoy impersonators
- trueBrothers and sisters
- Brothers and sisters
- Brothers and sisters -- Fiction
- Brothers and sisters -- Juvenile fiction
- trueChildren's stories
- Fiction
- Fiction
- Foster home care
- trueFoster home care
- Foster home care -- Fiction
- Foster home care -- Juvenile fiction
Genre
Member of
Included in
- trueSpur Awards: Best Western Juvenile Fiction
- truePioneer Life, 1800 -- 1865 : Fiction for Grades 3-5
- trueVirginia Readers' Choice Award: Middle School (Grades 6-9)
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McMinnville Public LibraryBorrow it225 NW Adams Street, McMinnville, OR, 97128, US45.210071 -123.199661
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Newberg Public LibraryBorrow it503 East Hancock Street, Newberg, OR, 97132, US45.301909 -122.974741
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Silver Falls Library DistrictBorrow it410 S. Water Street, Silverton, OR, 97381, US45.003378 -122.781322
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