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  • A Place to Belong

    Joan Lowery Nixon

    Mass Market Paperback (Laurel Leaf, May 21, 1996)
    Danny and his younger sister, Peg, are placed in St. Joseph, Missouri, with kind Alfrid and Olga Swenson. Danny is thrilled to have a "real" father again, but when Olga suddenly dies, he is devastated—until he thinks of an ingenious plan to find Alfrid a new wife.
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  • A Place to Belong

    Joan Lowery Nixon

    eBook (Delacorte Books for Young Readers, Nov. 27, 2013)
    Danny and his younger sister, Peg, are placed in St. Joseph, Missouri, with kind Alfrid and Olga Swenson. Danny is thrilled to have a "real" father again, but when Olga suddenly dies, he is devastated—until he thinks of an ingenious plan to find Alfrid a new wife.
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  • A Place to Belong

    Joan Lowery Nixon

    Paperback (Starfire, April 1, 1990)
    The Orphan Train Quartet follows the story of the six Kelly children, whose widowed mother has sent them west from New York City in 1856 because she realizes she cannot give them the life they deserve. Danny and his younger sister Peg feel lucky to be adopted by kind Alfrid and Olga Swenson in St. Joseph, Missouri. But when Olga dies suddenly, the children fear they will lose their wonderful new family. Danny comes up with an ingenious plan so they won’t be separated, and which might even bring his real family back together. Then Danny runs into a phony doctor he knew from New York City, who recognizes him. Can Danny protect himself and those he loves from the evil doctor and still make his plan work?
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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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  • A Place to Belong

    Joan Lowery Nixon

    Library Binding (Perfection Learning, May 1, 1996)
    The Orphan Train Quartet follows the story of the six Kelly children, whose widowed mother has sent them west from New York City in 1856 because she realizes she cannot give them the life they deserve.Danny and his younger sister Peg feel lucky to be adopted by kind Alfrid and Olga Swenson in St. Joseph, Missouri. But when Olga dies suddenly, the children fear they will lose their wonderful new family.Danny comes up with an ingenious plan so they won't be separated, and which might even bring his real family back together. Then Danny runs into a phony doctor he knew from New York City, who recognizes him. Can Danny protect himself and those he loves from the evil doctor and still make his plan work?
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  • Keeping Secrets

    Emily Chase

    Paperback (Scholastic Paperbacks, April 16, 1986)
    #4 in the Orphan Train series.
  • Girls of Canby Hall #04: Keeping Secrets

    Emily Chase

    Mass Market Paperback (Scholastic, March 16, 1984)
    In 1856, having traveled with his young sister from New York to a foster home on a farm in Missouri, ten-year-old Danny plots to get his foster father to send for and marry his mother.
  • Place to Belong

    Joan Lowery Nixon (author)

    Paperback (Random House Childrens Books, )
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  • A Place to Belong

    Joan Lowery Nixon

    Mass Market Paperback (Laurel Leaf, Aug. 16, 1656)
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  • A Place to Belong

    Joan Lowery Nixon

    Library Binding
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  • A Place To Belong

    Joan Lowery Nixon

    School & Library Binding (Turtleback Books, May 21, 1996)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. In 1856, having traveled with his young sister from New York to a foster home on a farm in Missouri, ten-year-old Danny plots to get his foster father to send for and marry his mother.
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  • Keeping Secrets

    Emily Chase

    Paperback (Scholastic Paperbacks, April 16, 1986)
    Book by Chase, Emily