Rodzina
Publisher: Tandem Library
Published: January 11, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Library Binding
ISBN-13: 9781417642878
Subjects: Family - Orphans & Foster Homes; Historical - United States - 19th Century; Social Issues - Homelessness & Poverty; Fiction; Juvenile Fiction; Orphans; Polish Americans; Children: Grades 4-6
First sentence: ON A COLD MONDAY MORNING in March, when a weak, pale sun struggled to shine and ice glistened in the cracks in the wooden street, a company of some twenty-two orphan children with stiff new clothes and little cardboard suitcases boarded a special railway car at the station near the Chicago River.