![]() ![]() Her historical fiction included the award-winning series The Orphan Train Adventures, Orphan Train Children, and Colonial Williamsburg: Young Americans. 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. 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. ![]() Champagne with a Corpse (With: Kathleen Nixon Brush). Hall) 134 A Place to Belong (Joan Lowery Nixon) 134 Appendix 137 This page intentionally left blank xi Diverse Family Groups PHYSICALLY Contents / ix. Will Rebekah find the courage to conquer the odds and find happiness in the United States of America. Joan Lowery Nixon List of Books in Publication and Chronological Order. Instead of finding streets paved with gold, they slave seven days a week in a sweatshop. Once they reach Ellis Island the girls must separate and Rebekah and her family settle in New York on the Lower East Side. The three quickly become friends as they share their visions of the future and endure life on the overcrowded ship. On the difficult ocean journey to the "land of opportunity" she meets two other girls-Kristin Swensen from Sweden and Rose Carney from Ireland. Russian immigrant Rebekah Levinsky hopes desperately that her dream will come true in America. ![]()
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