A Chance to Escape is a chapter book of historical fiction suitable
for grades 3-5. Imagine being a young widow from England who has
been in America only one year, then is left alone to support three
children under the age of twelve. This family is trapped by severe
economic circumstances in a slum district in New York City. Their
meager income is dwindling to such a crucial level that the mother
fears her children might wind up on the streets to survive, as
thousands of poor children have been forced to do. She is desperate
for help. This was the predicament in which Laura Harvey found
herself in 1893, with winter approaching. The only solution she
could come up with was to put Kathleen, Robert, and Beth on an
Orphan Train going out west where they could be placed in foster
homes. There they could have nourishing food, fresh air to breathe,
and an education even though her heart would be broken and her
children devastated at being separated from her.
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