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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Mail-Order Kid: An Orphan Train Rider's Story

Mail-Order Kid: An Orphan Train Rider's Story

Coffey, Marilyn June

Paperback

Historical Figures

ISBN10: 0962631728
ISBN13: 9780962631726
Publisher: Createspace
Published: May 6 2010
Pages: 300
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.67 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
The massive orphan train exodus whisked three-year-old Teresa from the safety of her New York orphanage, where the worst thing the Foundling nuns did was wash her curly black hair, to a desolate house and cold-hearted parents in Kansas. There she entered a small and strange Volga German world whose inhabitants spoke a language she had never heard. In this odd world, she encountered whippings and sexual abuse. Perhaps half a million children, like Teresa, were plucked from orphanages and shipped by rail (or relocated) to nearly every state in the Union from 1854 to 1929. Mail-Order Kid looks at the orphan train movement through the eyes of one small child who yearns to know her real mother, survives a tortured childhood, and ultimately, as an adult, comes to terms with her past, her faith, and herself.

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