In The Face of Danger (1988)

by Joan Lowery Nixon

Series: Orphan Train Adventures (Book 3)

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Orphan Train Adventures (Book 3)

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In The Face of Danger

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1988

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Megan Kelly

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Missouri, USA

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Spur Award (Juvenile, 1988)

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For Beverly Horowitz in friendship

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Jennifer watched Grandma ladle hot cucumber pickles into a row of scalded glass jars.

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Deeply unhappy about her family's separation because of poverty, Megan gradually finds contentment and purpose in her new home on the Kansas prairie with a kind and loving adopted family.

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