Raum, Elizabeth Orphan
Trains: An Interactive History Adventure
Capstone Publishers 2011 107p 30.65 978-1-4296-5479-1
elm/ms Historical You Choose: History (Capstone) VG-BNS
In this ╥You Choose╙ adventure, readers can
become a newsboy in New York City in 1866, go west with
three younger siblings
in 1904, or be left alone with a baby sister in 1919. As the reader progresses
through each story, further choices are offered that change
the final outcome.
During the mid-nineteenth to the early part of the twentieth
century, there were
immense numbers of homeless children to be found in New York
and other large
Eastern cities. Many
of these children were orphans, had families that could
not feed them, or were runaways from desperate
situations. Charles Brace
founded the Children╒s Aid Society and was instrumental
in creating the Orphan
Trains to take these children west to a better life. This book offers a peek
into the societal mores of the time. In this ╥You Choose╙ adventure, readers
can become a newsboy in New York City in 1866, go west with
three younger
siblings in 1904, or be left alone with a baby sister in
1919. As the reader
progresses through each story, further choices are offered
that will change the
final outcome.
The book is arranged
with an introduction, the three stories and afterwords
that place the adventures in historical context, timelines,
a bibliography of
books and Internet sites, a glossary, and an index. It provides an exciting way
to personalize this era and help the young readers relate to
the events of the
times. It will be of
great value to teachers of social studies and certainly
lead to further historical research.
This series
includes books that support the early civilizations of world
history, the major events of American history, life-changing
events like the
sinking of the Titanic and fascinating topics like
pirates. ╥You Choose╙ which
topic you will study as you navigate the pages of this
creative series.
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