Jack, Frances, and her younger brother Harold are being sent
to Kansas on an orphan train. It is supposedly a new,
brighter future for the city kids, but as the train moves
further west, rumors about what life is really like in
Kansas make the three children decide to do the one thing
they can think of to save themselves: jump from the train.
Alone in an environment none of them are prepared for, Jack,
Frances and Harold must find a way to survive. Soon they
meet Alexander, a boy who'd also been sent west on an orphan
train, a boy who escaped the dreaded farm he'd been given
to. He knows a place where children can go for freedom. It's
called Wanderville and he wants Jack, Frances, and Harold to
be the very first citizens.
WANDERVILLE by Wendy McClure is imaginative, hopeful, and
filled with spirit. The first in a new historical fiction
series for middle grade readers, WANDERVILLE takes readers
from the crowded streets of New York to the vast prairies of
Kansas in the early twentieth century. Both settings show
the hardships and fears orphaned children faced in order to
survive, but WANDERVILLE is a story of freedom, hope, and
dreams.
Wendy McClure captures the power of childhood dreams
and delivers it to her readers through the voice of her
dynamic characters. Jack, Frances, Harold, and Alex each
dream of different things. Jack dreams of his brother and of
a time when his family was with him. Frances dreams of a
place she and Harold can be safe and together. Harold dreams
of having a family and home. Alex dreams of Wanderville, a
city for all children who want more from life than to be
orphans and cast-offs. He dreams of community, but he can't
build it alone. Alex, Frances, Jack, and Harold create
Wanderville with pure imagination, resilience, and ingenuity
and it is their pursuit of their dreams and their belief in
each other, which gives WANDERVILLE an atmosphere of
adventure and excitement.
WANDERVILLE is the start of what looks to be a fun,
historical series that promotes imagination, community, and
an atmosphere of adventure. Fans of The Boxcar Children
will find WANDERVILLE right up their alley.
THE FIRST BOOK IN A HISTORICAL SERIES THAT'S PERFECT FOR
COMMON CORE AND FOR FANS OF THE BOXCAR CHILDREN!
Jack, Frances, and Frances's younger brother Harold have
been ripped from the world they knew in New York and sent to
Kansas on an orphan train at the turn of the century. As the
train chugs closer and closer to its destination, the
children begin to hear terrible rumors about the lives that
await them. And so they decide to change their fate the only
way they know how. . . . They jump off the train.
There, in
the middle of the woods, they meet a boy who will transform
their lives forever. His name is Alexander, and he tells
them they've come to a place nobody knows about-especially
not adult-and "where all children in need of freedom are
accepted." It's a place called Wanderville, Alexander says,
and now Jack, Frances, and Harold are its very first
citizens.
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