Overview :They were "throw away" kids, living in the streets or in orphanages and foster homes. Then Charles Loring Brace, a young minister working wi... Read More
Overview :Between 1854 and 1930, more than 200,000 orphaned or abandoned children were sent west on orphan trains to find new homes. Some were adopted... Read More
Overview :Provoked by the horrors he saw every day, Charles Dickens wrote novels that were originally intended as instruments for social change -- to ... Read More
Overview :The life-changing story of a young boy's struggle for survival in a Nazi-run concentration camp. Narrated in the voice of Holocaust survivor... Read More
Overview :Pioneer Girl is the true story of Grace McCance Snyder. In 1885, when Grace was three, she and her family became homesteaders on the windswe... Read More
Overview :An unforgettable true story of an orphan caught in the midst of warOver a million South Vietnamese children were orphaned by the Vietnam War... Read More
Overview :Meet Lucy McRae and two other young people, Willie Lord and Frederick Grant, all survivors of the Civil War's Battle for Vicksburg. In 1863,... Read More
Overview :The greatest entertainer of his era, Buffalo Bill was the founder and star of the legendary show that featured cowboys, Indians, trick ridin... Read More
Overview :Andrea Warren views her two award-winning nonfiction books about the orphan trains through the lens of the Common Core Standards, offering h... Read More
Overview :It's 1941 and ten-year-old Norman Mineta is a carefree fourth grader in San Jose, California, who loves baseball, hot dogs, and Cub Scouts. ... Read More