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Author Reef, Catherine.

Title Alone in the world : orphans and orphanages in America / Catherine Reef.

Publication Info. New York : Clarion Books, [2005]
©2005
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 Enfield, Main Library - Children's Department  J 362.73 REE    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Children's Department  J362.73 REE    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Children's Department  J362.73 R25A    Check Shelf
 Windsor Locks Public Library - Children's Department  J 362.730 REE    Check Shelf
Description 135 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-129) and index.
Contents Thrown upon the world -- Asylum children -- Saving youthful hearts -- Let society beware! -- Soldiers' orphans -- Everyone's business -- This army of children -- Afterword: where life led some of the children who appeared in this book.
Summary From the almshouses of the 1800s to the foster home programs of the present, find out about our country's evolving attitudes toward its neediest children.
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR MG 8.4 4.0 87327.
Subject Orphans -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Orphanages -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Orphans -- History.
Orphanages -- History.
ISBN 0618356703
Standard No. 9780618356706
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