Caught in the Act (The Orphan Train Adventures Series)

by Joan Lowery Nixon

Overview

As the saga of the Kelly children continues, Mike Kelly is adopted by a German immigrant farm family living in Missouri. Although they are kind to him, they are mainly interested in having cheap labor.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780440226789
Publisher:	Random House Children's Books
Publication date:	03/28/1996
Series:	Orphan Train Adventures Series , #2
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	4.19(w) x 6.94(h) x 0.43(d)
Lexile:	800L (what's this?)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

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.