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A Family Apart

Joan Lowery Nixon

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English
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
18 December 1995
The middle-grade answer to

Christina Baker Kline's New York Times bestselling Orphan Train, this is a

shockingly timely historical adventure.

 

Imagine being taken from your home. Imagine your mother is the one

who lets it happen.

 

This is the fate that befalls the Kelly children. It’s 1856, and

their widowed mother has sent them west from New York City because she’s

convinced that she can’t give them the life they deserve.

 

The Kellys board an “orphan train” and are taken to St. Joseph,

Missouri, where their problems only grow worse. It was bad enough that they

had to say goodbye to their mother, but now they’re forced to part ways with

their fellow siblings as well. Thirteen-year-old Frances won’t stand for it.

She’s going to protect her brothers and sisters, even if it means dressing up

like a boy and putting herself in danger.

 

Will Frances be able to save her siblings? And what about her mom—was

splitting up their family really her greatest act of love? Ride the rails

with Frances and her siblings to find out!

 

“This is as close to a perfect book as you’ll buy this year.” –VOYA
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Imprint:   Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 175mm,  Width: 106mm,  Spine: 12mm
Weight:   95g
ISBN:   9780440226765
ISBN 10:   0440226767
Series:   Orphan Train Adventures
Pages:   176
Publication Date:  
Recommended Age:   From 12 years
Audience:   Children/juvenile ,  Young adult ,  Primary & secondary/elementary & high school ,  English as a second language ,  Preschool (0-5)
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Joan Lowery Nixon was the author of more than 130 books for young readers and was the only four-time winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Best Young Adult Mystery Award. She received the award for The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore, The Séance, The Name of the Game Was Murder, and The Other Side of the Dark, which also won the California Young Reader Medal. Her historical fiction included the award-winning series The Orphan Train Adventures, Orphan Train Children, and Colonial Williamsburg: Young Americans.

Reviews for A Family Apart

From the reviews: <p> The scope of this book is to guide advanced students and scientists to successful experiments and applications of modern electro-analytical methods. a ] This guide is warmly recommended to interested chemists, biochemists, biologists, environmental and material scientists, physicists, medical scientists and, especially, to students of all these scientific disciplines. (Advances in Food Sciences, Vol. 25 (3), 2003) <p> Electrochemistry is a diverse subject practiced by a multitude of workers in different branches of science a ] . Fritz Scholz and his twelve-strong team a ] are to be congratulated on the production of a highly readable and well-structured book. a ] The book is very well laid out, and easy to read. a ] All in all, I think this is a very well written book, and will be useful for both undergraduates and practicing electrochemists alike, both in and outside the laboratory. (Jay D. Wadhawan, Chemical Educator, Vol. 7 (5), 2002) <p> The scope of this book is to guide advanced students and scientists to successful experiments and applications of modern electroanalytical techniques. It is written for chemists, biochemists, biologists, environmental and material scientists, physicists, medical scientists and, most importantly, students of all branches of science. a ] This book provides the necessary theoretical background of electrochemistry and the most frequently used measuring techniques. Special attention is given to experimental details and data evaluation. (Metrohm - Information, Vol. 31 (3), 2002) <p> Electrochemical methods for qualitative, and especially quantitative, analysis, are unrivalled in their sensitivity and limits of detectabilityfor many applications. a ] The publishers have produced the book with care to a high standard. It collects together much information a ] and presents it in a clearer and more connected form in many cases, together with some useful advice and stimulating ideas. a ] The book fills a gap with regard to some methods that have previously not been adequately covered a ] it also provides many practical hints. (Rudolf Holze, Angewandte Chemie, Vol. 41 (18), 2002)


  • Nominated for Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award 1990
  • Winner of Kansas William White Master List 1989
  • Winner of Virginia Young Readers Program Award 1991

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