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Goodman, Susan E.

 
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Synopsis

Texas Bound
Hazelle has been living in the Grace Home, an orphanage in New York City, for almost a year. Now she and several other children have been put on a train headed for Texas, where they will be placed with families that want children. But Hazelle isn't an orphan, and her new home isn't what she expected.
Will Hazelle find a place where she belongs?
Hazelle Boxberg was a real eleven-year-old girl who traveled to Texas on an orphan train in 1918. Her story is as exciting as any novel.

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À propos de l'auteur

To research her various books and magazine articles, Susan E. Goodman has snowshoed through mountain forests, tried using a blowgun in the Amazon, and scared a moose at rest -- and herself in the bargain. Years ago, she went to U.S. Space Camp as a participant and loved the 1/6 Gravity Chair. Ms. Goodman lives with her family in Boston, Massachusetts.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

In 1918, 11-year-old Hazelle Boxberg is taken from a New York City orphanage and put on a train to Texas to be placed with a family looking for a child. But Hazelle is not an orphan, and her new home is not what she expects. Illustrations.

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