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A Place to Belong
Joan Lowery Nixon
Hardcover (Delacorte Books for Young Readers, Jan. 1, 1989)In 1860, having traveled with his young sister from New York to a foster home on a farm inear St. Joseph, Missouri, ten-year-old Danny plots to get his newly-widowed foster father to send for and marry his mother.
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IN THE FACE OF DANGER
Joan Lowery Nixon
Hardcover (Delacorte Books for Young Readers, Aug. 1, 1988)Deeply unhappy about her family's separation because of poverty, Megan gradually finds contentment and purpose in her new home on the Kansas prairie with a kind and loving adopted family.
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A Family Apart
Joan Lowery Nixon
Hardcover (Delacorte Books for Young Readers, Sept. 1, 1987)When their mother can no longer support them, six siblings are sent by the Children's Aid Society of New York City to live with farm families in Missouri in 1860
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