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Buchanan,
Jane
HANK'S
STORY
New York :
Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2001
IL 3-6. RL
4.9
ISBN
0374328366
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Twelve-year-old
Hank is living with the Olson family. They
are not his parents and they are not very
nice. Hank had lived in New York City with
his parents and his older brother. His
parents had died leaving the two boys on their
own. The boys were sent to live in an
orphanage. Many of the orphaned children at
the orphanage were sent West on what was called The
Orphan Train. The idea was to pair up
children in need of a home with families out West
who had room for one more. Sometimes the
matches worked out really well. Sometimes
they didn't. For Hank and his brother, their
new home came with overwork, beatings and little
food. Hank's brother ran away and now Hank
gets the full brunt of Mr. Olson's drunken
rages. Even at school, Hank is taunted and
mistreated. His only happy time comes when he
can visit with Miss Molly McIntire, a crazy old
lady with a barn full of sick animals. The
friendship between the two seems odd and Hank is
warned not to talk to her ever again. Will he
risk another beating to spend time with
Molly? Will he resign himself to live with
the Olson's or will he follow his brother's
example and run away? All the answers are her
in HANK'S STORY.
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SUBJECTS:
Orphans --
Fiction.
Farm life -- Nebraska -- Fiction.
Nebraska Fiction.
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