Joan Lowery Nixon
Author
Series
Orphan Train adventures volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
In 1863, eleven-year-old Peg Kelly is drawn into the dangerous activities of a mysterious young woman who takes refuge with the Kelly family in Missouri after fleeing the attack on Lawrence, Kansas, by William Quantrill and his Confederate raiders.
Author
Series
Orphan Train adventures volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
After being taken in by Captain Taylor and his wife in Kansas, twelve-year-old Mike Kelly and his friend Todd Blakely join the Union army as musicians and see the horrors of war firsthand in Missouri.
Author
Series
Claude books (Joan Lowery Nixon) volume 2
Pub. Date
c1986.
Description
Exciting escapades follow Shirley's attempts to make an apple pie for Claude until one day an orphan boy makes a pie that wins him Claude's favor.
10) Land of hope
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Rebekah, a fifteen-year-old Jewish immigrant arriving in New York City in 1902, almost abandons her dream of getting an education when she is forced to work in a sweatshop.
11) Shadowmaker
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Soon after she and her mother come to the small Texas town of Kluney and experience a series of menacing events, Katie begins to suspect that there is something sinister going on.
12) The stalker
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
When her best friend is accused of murder, seventeen-year-old Jennifer is determined to prove her innocence by finding the real culprit.
Author
Series
Orphan Train adventures volume 3
Pub. Date
1996,c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Deeply unhappy about her family's separation because of poverty, Megan gradually finds contentment and purpose in her new home on the Kansas prairie with a kind and loving adopted family.
14) The haunting
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
The walls whisper. The ceilings shriek. No one can survive a night of terror inside Graymoss. The old plantation house has been in Lia's family since the Civil War, but it's been possessed for generations by a malicious spirit, and Lia's family has always stayed far away. Now her parents have decided to move into Gryamoss, and lIa must either change their minds or chase away the horror lurking inside the old house. Using clues from her great-great-grandmother's...
17) Circle of Love
Author
Series
Orphan Train adventures volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Nineteen-year-old Frances Mary Kelly, herself an orphan train rider six years before, returns to New York and agrees to escort a group of orphans west to find new homes.