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I found myself fascinated all the way through, not just with the events of this journey, but also with the delightful characters.Rodzina Brodski, a 12-year-old Polish orphan girl from Chicago, and two dozen other children were put on an orphan train headed west in the hope that they could be adopted by good families. In the early 1880s, westerners were mostly hard-scrabble ranchers, farmers and miners, who needed a hard worker with a strong back, not another mouth to feed.The story of Rodzina, as she grows from grouchy and sad to a more hopeful and independent girl is one that evolves, as she faces two women who want her for her labor, and later, a man who wants her to replace his dying wife.This is my favorite kind of book -- spunky characters, fun to read, and along the way I learn something.Recommended for girls 9-12 -- and I enjoyed it, too. How did I not know the history of the children's orphan trains in the United States. Not every family wants a child to love and cuddle, however.
It wasn't anything special like some of the author's other books. I enjoyed this book. But I still enjoyed it on audiobook.
She also met a lot of other people who were traveling west on the trains. I loved this book and know if you read it you will too. She was lonely and sad, but then she became friends with some of the others whose names were Lacey, Joe, and his brother Sammy. Doctor, who Rodzina grew to like.
Rodzina was talking to a lady with "rosy red cheeks and red cherries on her hat. Did the tall, brave Rodzina get picked to be a daughter or didn't she. Rodzina had a mom, dad, and twin 5-year-old brothers. How many of the original fourteen orphans would find good homes on the train ride West. Before becoming an orphan she didn't even know what a train was. She and her family were Polish immigrants.
When she was about ten her dad died, then her mom died shortly after that. Because she was the oldest, she had to help take care of the other kids. She seemed very nice." The two adults that were watching the orphans and making sure they didn't get hurt were Mr. I recommend this book to people who would like to learn more about the world of a young orphan in the 1880's. This historical nonfiction book is about a real orphan girl named Rodzina Clara Jadwiga Anastazya Brodski. She then became an orphan at the age of twelve and had to board the first of many trains going West with a lot of other orphans.
Szprots, who wasn't very nice and Ms.
The reader will route for Rodzina to find a family and live happily. This is a good novel and I would recommend it to others. Rodzina Brodski, in the novel Rodzina by Karen Cushman, isn't sure about this and doesn't want a new family. After reading the novel I had a much better understanding of how life was different form today. An example of this difference is how long it took them to travel from Chicago to California. I could imagine them in the scenes of the book as I read the story.
Another reason why I would recommend this book is because the characters seem very realistic. Another person who Rodzina meets is the lady who is in charge of the orphans named Mrs. Doctor. Doctor at first seems cruel but later find out she is kind and caring.
This book will grab the reader's attention from the very beginning when the orphan's situations are described. Rodzina seems like an average girl who is scared and not wanting to be part of a new family, as most orphans would be. The reader will have fun trying to imagine how Rodzina feels and what she is going though. It will make the reader really relieve the hardships in there lives. She is perfectly fine with her orphanage back in Chicago but is forced to move west.
The plot seems also very realistic because several of these events actually did happen to real orphans. Readers looking for a funny adventurous story will love this book. Another reason why I recommend this book is because of the creativity in the plot. Another orphan on the train named Lacey becomes very good friends with Rodzina after they end up sitting together. The author used great detail to describe the country side that the train traveled though and the cities they spent time in. Doctor who has grown fond of Rodzina decides to have Rodzina come live with her.
They will want to keep reading until they find out the great ending of who adopts Rodzina. Rodzina is an excellent well written novel that I would highly recommend. Along the way she meets several orphans and interesting people. Later at the end of the novel Mrs. Another example, Mrs.
Cirillo ~C. As the orphans board the train they are told they are going to be adopted by loving and caring families out west. This book is very fascinating and with its fast paced action it will make the reader anxious to know what will happen next. As a historical fiction novel, Rodzina told about how life was in America during the late 1800's.
The train was taking her to place where she would be adopted. She felt that this might not be so bad. The people who adopted her wanted her as a slave not a daughter. So they took her back and tore up the certificate, threw it in the mans face that was the leader of the adoption agency. When they reached their destination, a lot of other kids were being adopted, except Rodzina was not being adopted. When they reached their house she could not find it.
So Rodzina told them that she was Polish, and it was against her religion to work on Sunday, Monday, Thursday, and Fridays. This time she was adopted by a couple who already had had twelve children. A nun, who knew her, grabbed her and put her on a train. After a few hours all the children who where not adopted got back on the train, and for many more nights all she ate was peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
And they all lived happily ever after. One of the children told her that they lived in a dugout. At there next stop Rodzina was adopted. She is living on the streets of Chicago.
Rodzina was on this train for many days, and all they fed her was peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. She was mad. Rodzina got back on the train and for many more nights swayed in the rocking train. She thought that this could be nice.
RODZINAA girl named Rodzina is an orphan. She was glad that she was not being adopted; she wanted to go back to Chicago and live on the streets once again. When they reached the next town Rodzina was adopted again.
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