A Place to Belong

In 1860, having traveled with his young sister from New York to a foster home on a farm near St. Joseph, Missouri, ten-year-old Danny plots to get his newly-widowed foster father to send for and marry his mother.

About the author

Joan Lowery Nixon was the author of more than 130 books for young readers and was the only four-time winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Best Young Adult Mystery Award. She received the award for The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore, The Séance, The Name of the Game Was Murder, and The Other Side of the Dark, which also won the California Young Reader Medal. Her historical fiction included the award-winning series The Orphan Train Adventures, Orphan Train Children, and Colonial Williamsburg: Young Americans.

Summary

Danny and his younger sister, Peg, are placed in St. Joseph, Missouri, with kind Alfrid and Olga Swenson. Danny is thrilled to have a "real" father again, but when Olga suddenly dies, he is devastated—until he thinks of an ingenious plan to find Alfrid a new wife.

Product details

• Authors: Joan Lowery Nixon, Nixon Joan Lowery
• Publisher: Random House N.Y.
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 12
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.05.1996
• EAN: 9780440226963
• ISBN: 978-0-440-22696-3
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 108 mm x 173 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 96 g
• Series: Orphan Train Adventures (Paper; Orphan Train Adventures; Orphan Train Adventures
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books; YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Family / Orphans & Foster Homes, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Action & Adventure / Survival Stories, Historical fiction (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction