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Train to Somewhere

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Train to Somewhere

by Eve Bunting

Reading level: Ages 4-8, Grades 2-4
Hardcover: 32 pages
Publisher: Clarion Books (1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 039571325
ISBN-13: 978-0395713259

Summary: This story is about fourteen children who are headed West on an orphan train. One of the orphans, Marianne, is expecting to find her mother, who told her she was heading West and would come back for her. But stop after stop, there is no sign of her mother. No one shows interest in plain, shy Marianne either until the final stop, a place called Somewhere.

Train to Somewhere_Lesson Plan

Additional lesson plan and activities for Train to Somewhere:

From National Orphan Train Complex www.orphantraindepot.com/TrainToSomewhereLessonPlan.html

From Houghton Mifflin www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/readers_guides/bunting/train.shtml

Another orphan train book (Grades 4-7) Orphan Train Rider: One Boy's True Story (includes lesson plans)

Orphan Train Video

Orphan Train Helpful Links

NCSS Theme - Individuals_Groups_and_Instititutions

Social Studies Standard - History

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