This heartfelt story begins on the streets of New York City in 1854 where thousands of homeless children, immigrants and natives are fighting to survive "just one more day". Charles Loring Brace, founder of the Children's Aid Society, made a plan to rescue the children by getting them out of the city to loving rural homes in America's growing Midwest. The first location to accept these homeless children is Dowagiac, Michigan, a railroad whistle-stop on the track-line to Chicago. You will experience the hope, fear and exciement as you travel with Jack, Sarah, little George and 42 other orphans on their way to new faraway homes and better lives. Traveling by train across New York state, crossing Lake Erie by steamship and then on to Detroit to board another train, these children cling to one another for safety and survival trying hard to keep themselves together and clean in their filthy flea-ridden travel conditions.
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"Stop! Thief! Thief!" shouted the angry voice of the Metropolitan police officer as he yanked the billy club from his belt. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lodging House, New York City, American House, Children's Aid Society, Five Points, Michigan Central Rail Road, Isaac Newton, Charles Loring Brace, Lake Erie, Reverend Smith New!
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"Stop! Thief! Thief!" shouted the angry voice of the Metropolitan police officer as he yanked the billy club from his belt. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lodging House, New York City, American House, Children's Aid Society, Five Points, Michigan Central Rail Road, Isaac Newton, Charles Loring Brace, Lake Erie, Reverend Smith New!
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- The Encyclopedia of New York City by Kenneth T. Jackson in Back Matter
- Kingdom Come by John V. Taylor on page 123
- Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph (Penguin Literary Biographies) by Edgar Johnson in Back Matter
- Charles Dickens (Longman Critical Readers) by Steven Connor in Back Matter
- Dangerous Classes of New York (Nasw Classic Series) by C. Loring Brace in Back Matter
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