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Author Reef, Catherine.

Title Alone in the world : orphans and orphanages in America / Catherine Reef.

Publication Info. New York : Clarion Books, [2005]
©2005

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Children's & Young Adult Collection  CH/YA Fic Reef Alo 2005    Available  ---  Gift of Phyllis Fantauzzo.
Description 135 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
age Children
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-129) and index.
Contents Thrown upon the world -- Asylum children -- Saving youthful hearts -- Let society beware! -- Soldiers' orphans -- Everyone's business -- This army of children -- Afterword: where life led some of the children who appeared in this book.
Summary Author Reef uncovers the true history of orphanages, revealing what it was like to eat, sleep, study, and play in such institutions, why children were sent to live there in the first place (not always because their parents were dead), what happened to them after they left, and more. Carefully researched and brought to life through accessible writing, first-hand accounts, and more than 70 archival photographs and prints.--From publisher description.
Provenance Gift of Phyllis Fantauzzo.
Subject Orphans -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Orphans.
United States.
History.
Orphanages -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Orphanages.
Genre/Form History.
Juvenile works.
ISBN 0618356703
9780618356706