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In The Face of Danger (Orphan Train Adventures)

In The Face of Danger (Orphan Train Adventures) Mass market paperback - 1996

by Nixon, Joan Lowery

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Shy Megan Kelly cannot forget the day a gypsy read her palm announcing to all that she would bring trouble to those around her. Afterward, trouble does follow her, until she takes the necessary steps to free herself from the burdens of fear, loneliness, and superstition.

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Laurel Leaf, 1996. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title In The Face of Danger (Orphan Train Adventures)
  • Author Nixon, Joan Lowery
  • Binding Mass Market Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 160
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Laurel Leaf, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1996
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0440227054I3N00
  • ISBN 9780440227052 / 0440227054
  • Weight 0.19 lbs (0.09 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.69 x 4.45 x 0.45 in (16.99 x 11.30 x 1.14 cm)
  • Ages 12 to UP years
  • Grade levels 7 - UP
  • Reading level 850
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
    • Cultural Region: Heartland
    • Cultural Region: Plains
    • Cultural Region: Upper Midwest
    • Cultural Region: Western U.S.
    • Geographic Orientation: Kansas
    • Theometrics: Secular
  • Library of Congress subjects Kansas, Great Plains
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

First line

JENNIFER WATCHED GRANDMA ladle hot cucumber pickles into a row of scalded glass jars.

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 Sance, 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.