Nettie and Nellie Crook
Subtitle: orphan train sisters
By: E.F. Abbott
Edition: First edition.
Series: Based on a true story
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 161
ISBN-13: 9781250068354
Subjects: Child abuse; Children's Aid Society (New York, N.Y.); Juvenile fiction; Fiction; Twins; Orphan trains; Sisters; Orphans; History
Description: Twin sisters Nettie and Nellie Crook are taken away from their disfunctional parents in 1910 when they are only five years old, and placed in an orphanage--at six they are put on the orphan train by the Children's Aid Society and moved from New York City to Kansas, ending up in a household where they are treated more as servants than children.