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Summary: A fantastic children's book!
Review: "A Family Apart" is a wonderful children's book about children whose mother gives them up for adoption through a church program in Missouri. Children learn a great deal about life in Missouri in the time period right before the Civil War. It's a great adult read too!
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Summary: Family learns to accept their new homes!
Review: 6 children are put up for adoption on the Orphan Trains. Unfortunately Frances Mary has promised to take care of her younger brother Petey but has heard that people will only accept boys together. So she dresses up as a boy and is accepted by two wonderful people. Her name is now Frankie and lives on a farm. She gets involved with the Underground Railroad and learns what its like to be a boy. Unfortunately, she doesn't like the new life and misses her other brothers and sisters.I normally don't like western books but this book is suprisingly ausome!
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Summary: A Wonderful Book!!!
Review: A Family Apart is a great book that will make you laugh and cry. It is a book about the ultimate sacrifice and love Mrs. Kelly does for her children by sending them out West to live a better life than she can give them. It is a suspensful story that you have to read to find out what happens.
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Summary: An Exciting, Adventurous Story
Review: A Family Apart is a wonderful book about six children and their mother. Mike is a terrible boy. He steals, and he causes problems in their famiily, and they are poor. They have to go to an orphanage, and their whole family gets split up. This book could be based on anyone's life. I know that people get seperated and go live with other families, so that is like reading a biograpphy, but really I think it is more exciting an instead of one person, it is about six children and their new families. I would recommend this book to anyone. This book is like a biography. It has adventures, and it tells about old times. It is not scary, but in some parts if you were those people you would be scared. It is like a biography because it tells about the children's lives. It is adventurous because in one part a boy has to help a slave escape in a wagon. It is scary because the kids get adopted by strangers. I really enjoyed this very exciting book. I'm sure anyone who reads this will like it too!
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Summary: WONDERFUL BOOK
Review: A family Apart is an intreaging book about a family of seven. The yare torn apart by a difficult sacrifice. Frances Mary who is thirteen, Michael twelve, Megan eleven, Danny ten, Peg eight, and Petey six are being separated in the west to defferent toster homes. Many exciting events happen on their trip to MIssouri. Read ths wonderful book and find out what happens in the end.
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Summary: A Great Book
Review: A Family Apart will help explain about ultimate sacrifice and love. The author of this novel has a unique writing style which will make you laugh and cry. Throughout the book, six children are raised in a harsh world of poverty. They are transported away by their mother, who feels she can't give them the life they deserve. When the children are separated, they realize how much they meant to each other. I enjoyed this novel because the compassion the mother shows toward her children is overwhelming.
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Summary: A Family Apart
Review: Good Book! It has action, adventure, and helps you learn about history all in one book. I enjoyed reading it and if you read this book, be sure to check out the rest of the series, too! People of all ages would love it. I'd recomend this book to everyone I meet!
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Summary: A good story of love and sacrifice
Review: I found this novel an extremly interesting story. It is about the Kelly children who are sent West with the orphan train because after the death of their father, there mother feels she can't give them the life they deserve. As the children are seperated, they all realize how much the other meant to them.You can learn alot about love and sacrifice from this story.
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Summary: Long lost friend...
Review: I just wanted to say that I used to read this series over and over again when I was in Middle and High School, I am now 21. I looked for it for a long time and I am so happy to have finaly found it again. I recommend you get this book and enjoy reading it and the whole series. The children in it, especialy Frances will fill you with so much inspiration! I am so happy to have found a long lost friend! Thank you Amazon.com for helping me find it!
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Summary: I read the book and I loved it. I'm now reading the series.
Review: I love this book. I think it is one of my favourite historical fiction. I would really recomemed this book to anyone.
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