Rory's Promise
Honesdale, Pa. : Calkins Creek, [2014]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 288 pages ; 22 cm.
Twelve-year-old Rory Fitzpatrick loves her younger sister, Violet, more than anyone in the world. She has been Violet's only family ever since their parents died and they went to live at the Sisters of Charity Foundling Hospital in New York. Rory promised she would always protect her sister, would never leave her. So when Rory learns that the nuns are sending Violet to an adoptive family out West, Rory is determined to follow and keep her family together at all costs. What happens on the journey west proves just how brave and strong Rory Fitzpatrick is.
Series: MacColl, Michaela. Hidden histories ; bk. 1.
Subjects:
New York Foundling Hospital -- Juvenile fiction.
Sisters -- Juvenile fiction.
Orphans -- United States -- Juvenile fiction.
Orphan trains -- Juvenile fiction.
Orphanages -- New York (State) -- New York -- Juvenile fiction.
New York (N.Y.) -- Juvenile fiction.
New York Foundling Hospital -- Juvenile fiction.
Sisters -- Juvenile fiction.
Orphans -- United States -- Juvenile fiction.
Orphan trains -- Juvenile fiction.
Orphanages -- New York (State) -- New York -- Juvenile fiction.
New York (N.Y.) -- Juvenile fiction.
Target Audience: 630L
ISBN:
1620916231