Fly Little Bird, Fly!: The True Story of Oliver Nordmark & America's Orphan Trains
Publisher
Wasteland Press
Publication Year
2004
ISBN
9781932852073
Pages
80 pages
Genre
nonfiction
Format
full length
Item Type
Nonfiction
Annotation
Holding tight to one another, vowing never to be separated, Oliver and Edward board the Orphan Train headed west to find a new home.
Grade Level
3-5
Diversity Topics
Family Relationships; Foster care; Family member death; foster children; foster home; orphans; death of a mother
Main Character
male children
Race/Ethnicities
White
Family Formation
foster mother and father
Keywords
orphan trains; orphanage; domestic servitude; struggle; Midwest; historical account; true story
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Aviles, Donna Nordmark, "Fly Little Bird, Fly!: The True Story of Oliver Nordmark & America's Orphan Trains" (2004). Diverse Families. 491.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/491