Andrea Warren and Orphan Train
created by Christina Renaud, Oak Street/ Horace Man School, Franklin
November 2006
Warren, Andrea. (2004) Escape from Saigon: how a Vietnam War Orphan became an American boy . New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
More than a million South Vietnamese children were orphaned by the Vietnam War. This affecting, true account tells the story of Long, who, like more than 40,000 other orphans, is a mixed-race child with little future in Vietnam and his dramatic escape to America.
Warren, Andrea. (1996) Orphan Train Rider: One Boy’s True Story. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Between 1854 and 1930, more than 200,000 orphaned or abandoned children were sent west on orphan trains. Warren alternates chapters about the history of the orphan trains with the story of Lee Nailling, who in 1926 rode an orphan train to Texas.
Warren, Andrea. (1998) Pioneer Girl: Growing Up on the Prairie. New York: Morrow Junior Books.
Old photos illustrate a riveting story of one girl's life on the prairie and the determination of the families who settled there.
Warren, Andrea. (2001) Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps. New York: Harper Collins Publishing Company. Award-winning author Warren combines haunting photographs from World War II concentration camps with the inspiring words of Jack Mandelbaum to tell the powerful true story of a boy becoming a man in the Holocaust.
Warren, Andrea. (2001) We Rode the Orphan Trains. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
They were "throw away" kids, living in the streets or in orphanages and foster homes. Then Charles Loring Brace, a young minister working with the poor in New York City, started the Children’s Aid Society and devised a plan to give homeless children a chance to find families to call their own. Thus began an extraordinary migration of American children.
If you like:
Warren, Andrea. (1996) Orphan Train Rider: One Boy’s True Story. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Between 1854 and 1930, more than 200,000 orphaned or abandoned children were sent west on orphan trains. Warren alternates chapters about the history of the orphan trains with the story of Lee Nailling, who in 1926 rode an orphan train to Texas.
Warren, Andrea. (2001) We Rode the Orphan Trains. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
They were "throw away" kids, living in the streets or in orphanages and foster homes. Then Charles Loring Brace, a young minister working with the poor in New York City, started the Children’s Aid Society and devised a plan to give homeless children a chance to find families to call their own. Thus began an extraordinary migration of American children.
Then try these great fiction books & series:
Bunting, Eve. (1996) Train to Somewhere. New York: Clarion Books.
In the late 1800s, Marianne travels westward on the Orphan Train in hopes of being placed with a caring family.
Cushman, Karen (2003) Rodzina. New York: Clarion Books.
A twelve-year-old Polish American girl is boarded onto an orphan train in Chicago with fears about traveling to the West and a life of unpaid slavery.
Kay, Verla. (2003) Orphan Train. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons.
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