The Cheese Song
All Aboard the Orphan Train
Published on 15. July 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
38 pages
978-1-63233-166-3 (ISBN)
Description
Join Libby & Josie as they journey on one of the infamous orphan trains in 1896 from New York City to the midwest in search of a forever family. Two girls watch each other across the train car with interest. One holds tight to her little brother and the other clutches a mysterious basket. An unexpected secret will bind the two girls together.
Part of the Tales from American HerStory series featuring young female protagonists, this book shares the story of one little girl, who, like a quarter million young American orphans at the end of the 19th century, traveled west in hopes of fi nding a new family.
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Series
Language
English
Target group
Children/juvenile
US School Grade: Kindergarten, Interest Age: From 5 to 10 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 216 mm
Thickness: 3 mm
Weight
132 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-63233-166-3 (9781632331663)
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Sarojini Sahoo(born 1956) is an Orissa Sahitya Academy Award winning (1993) Indian feminist writer, a columnist in The New Indian Express and an associate editor of Chennai-based English magazine Indian AGE. She has been enlisted among 25 Exceptional Women of India by Kindle Magazine of Kolkata.
She started fiction writing from 70's. A bilingual writer writes both in English and Odia. She has ten anthologies of short stories and ten novels. She has published a collection of English essays Sensible Sensuality (2010), where redefining femininity with Eastern perspective, the book explores why sexuality plays a major role in our understanding of Eastern feminism. Also, she has two novels and three short stories collections in English. Two of her novels and two of her short stories collections have been translated into Hindi and Bengali, Kannada and Sinhalese (Srilanka). Her one of novels has also been translated into Malayalam and published by Chintha Publishers, Thiruvanthapuram. One of her English essays collection Sensible sensuality has been translated and published into Bengali, Malayalm, Hindi and Odia.
She started fiction writing from 70's. A bilingual writer writes both in English and Odia. She has ten anthologies of short stories and ten novels. She has published a collection of English essays Sensible Sensuality (2010), where redefining femininity with Eastern perspective, the book explores why sexuality plays a major role in our understanding of Eastern feminism. Also, she has two novels and three short stories collections in English. Two of her novels and two of her short stories collections have been translated into Hindi and Bengali, Kannada and Sinhalese (Srilanka). Her one of novels has also been translated into Malayalam and published by Chintha Publishers, Thiruvanthapuram. One of her English essays collection Sensible sensuality has been translated and published into Bengali, Malayalm, Hindi and Odia.