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Can you imagine being placed in an orphanage while your parents are still alive? That's what happens to Nettie and Nellie Crook, who are only five years old in 1910 when they are removed from their home in New York. No one tells Nettie and Nellie why their parents can no longer care for them, and later, no one explains why the orphans are put on a train headed west. The girls soon find themselves put on display in various small towns, where prospective parents examine and select children for adoption. Nettie and Nellie are taken by Mr. and Mrs. Chapin -- will this be a happy ending for the twins?Based on a True Story books are exciting historical fiction about real children who lived through extraordinary times in American History.
About the Author
E. F. Abbott is a collective pseudonym for the four authors who contributed to the Based on a True Story series.
* Karen Romano Young (Sybil Ludington: Revolutionary War Rider) , also the author of Doodlebug: A Novel in Doodles, has written over a dozen books for children and lives with her family in Bethel, CT.
* Jane Kelly (Mary Jemison: Native American Captive) , also the author of The Desperate Adventures of Zeno and Alya, lives in Brooklyn, NY.
* Kristin O'Donnell Tubb (John Lincoln Clem: Civil War Drummer Boy) , also the author of Selling Hope and The 13th Sign, lives with her family in Tennessee.
* Susan Hill (Nettie and Nellie Crook: Orphan Train Sisters) is the author of many books for children, including a picture book adaptation of Lassie Come Home, and lives in Portland, OR.
