Read Series: Orphan Train Adventures
by Author Joan Lowery Nixon
Caught in the Act (1996)
Eleven-year-old Michael Patrick Kelly from New York City is sent to a foster home, a Missouri farm with a sadistic owner, a bullying son, and a number of secrets, one of which may be murder.
A Dangerous Promise (1994)
In A Dangerous Promise the protagonist is a 12 year old boy who runs away to join the Union army. The plot of this book is very exiting with many close calls. Mike Kelly and his friend Todd are drummers in the Union army. Their first battle is at the Battle of Bull Run. Todd dies in Battle and Mi...
In The Face of Danger (1996)
I didn't read Megan's part of the series the first time around years ago, so I was pleasantly surprised as to how much I enjoyed it. Poor Meg got the "Beth March" edit, the shy, quiet, boring one, and as a result, is easily overlooked both in the story and to the reader. It is a shame, because In...
A Place to Belong (1996)
In A Place to Belong, the next story in the Orphan Train saga, Danny Kelly wishes his family were back together. Danny’s a mix of Meg and Mike to some degree but lacks the rich characterization of his siblings in the previous three books. In his story, his younger sister Peg and he are adopted by...
A Family Apart (1995)
Justin BrandonGoodreads Book ReviewB-210/6/15tThe book I read this quarter was called “A Family Apart” by Joan Lowery Nixon. This is a nonfiction book about a family who lives on the Orphan Train for most of their childhood life in 1856.tIn the book “A Family Apart” the author's purpose is to sho...
Keeping Secrets (1996)
Three years have passed since the Kelly children moved out west from New York City. This part of the tale is placed in the hands of Peg, now 11 years old. Peg's desperate to be like her older siblings and longs to be treated like an adult. She is granted the chance when the mysterious Violet come...