Joan Lowery Nixon
42) David's search
Author
Series
Orphan Train children volume 4
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
After eleven-year-old orphan-train rider David Howard settles with a strict Texas farm family, his best friend, an ex-slave, is threatened by the growing presence of the Ku-Klux Klan.
43) Aggie's home
Author
Publisher
Delacorte
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
A clumsy twelve-year-old, Aggie is sure no one will want to adopt her, but when she meets the eccentric Bradon family she begins to have some hope. Includes historical information about orphan trains and the woman's suffrage movement.
45) A family apart
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1988, c1987
Language
English
Description
When their mother can no longer support them, six siblings are sent by the Children's Aid Society of New York City to live with farm families in Missouri in 1860.
Author
Series
Claude books (Joan Lowery Nixon) volume 4
Publisher
Viking Kestrel
Pub. Date
1989
Language
English
Description
Shirley and Claude lead a settled life with their adopted son, Tom, until Shirley goes to town to retrieve Tom's sister, Bessie, and the two run into more than their share of trouble with criminals.
Author
Series
Claude books (Joan Lowery Nixon) volume 5
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
When Shirley convinces her husband Claude to help fulfill their adopted daughter's dream of a visit from Santa, she doesn't reckon on the real Santa Claus showing up at their place in Texas.
58) Maggie, too
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
c1985
Language
English
Description
A defensive twelve-year-old comes to understand her father, a busy Hollywood director planning to remarry, after she is exiled for the summer to the everyday life of her grandmother's house in Houston.
60) Who are you?
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
When the police discover that a man who has been shot has been keeping a file of her entire life, sixteen-year-old Kristi, an aspiring artist, suspects a connection with the possible theft of a painting from a museum.