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Whistle-Stop West
- Beyond the Orphan Train, Book 2
- Narrated by: Susan Hanfield
- Series: Beyond the Orphan Train, Book 2
- Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Children's Audiobooks, Literature & Fiction
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- By: Arleta Richardson
- Narrated by: Susan Hanfield
- Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
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- Narrated by: Susan Hanfield
- Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
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With his mother dead, his father gone, and his older brothers and sisters unable to help, eight-year-old Ethan Cooper knows it's his responsibility to keep him and his younger siblings together - even if that means going to an orphanage. Ethan, Alice, Simon, and Will settle into the Briarlane Christian Children's Home, where there's plenty to eat, plenty of work, and plenty of talk about a father who never leaves. Even so, Ethan fears losing the only family he has. How can he trust God to keep him safe when almost everything he's known has disappeared?
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Across the Border
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- Narrated by: Susan Hanfield
- Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
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Enemy Brothers (Living History Library)
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- Grandma's Attic Series, Book 4
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- Narrated by: Susan Hanfield
- Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins
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This compilation of tales recounts humorous and poignant memories from Grandma Mabel's childhood on a Michigan farm in the late 1800s. Combining the warmth and spirit of Little House on the Prairie with a Christian focus, this book transports listeners back to a simpler time to learn lessons surprisingly relevant in today's world. Richardson's wholesome stories have reached more than two million listeners worldwide.
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- Fairchild Family Stories, Book 2
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Prairie Homestead
- Beyond the Orphan Train, Book 3
- By: Arleta Richardson
- Narrated by: Susan Hanfield
- Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
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Since their mama died and their pa left, Ethan, Alice, Simon, and Will Cooper have not known much of a home. But now that the orphan train has taken them to Mr. and Mrs. Rush in Nebraska, their dreams of home may become a reality. The kids discover that life on a farm is full of challenges. Ethan learns how to drive a plow, watch for snakes, and deal with bullies at the country school. Alice learns to slop the hogs and live with a big sister who isn't exactly welcoming. Will seems to be the only one of the four that their new mother likes.
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Looking for Home
- Beyond the Orphan Train, Book 1
- By: Arleta Richardson
- Narrated by: Susan Hanfield
- Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
With his mother dead, his father gone, and his older brothers and sisters unable to help, eight-year-old Ethan Cooper knows it's his responsibility to keep him and his younger siblings together - even if that means going to an orphanage. Ethan, Alice, Simon, and Will settle into the Briarlane Christian Children's Home, where there's plenty to eat, plenty of work, and plenty of talk about a father who never leaves. Even so, Ethan fears losing the only family he has. How can he trust God to keep him safe when almost everything he's known has disappeared?
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Across the Border
- Beyond the Orphan Train, Book 4
- By: Arleta Richardson
- Narrated by: Susan Hanfield
- Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Life on the Rush farm in South Dakota is not easy. Even so, over the past four years, Ethan Cooper and his siblings have grown to feel they belong with their adoptive family. Then Chad Rush makes an unexpected announcement. The family is moving again - this time to Mexico! Ethan is scared. What dangers will they face in another country? What will it be like to live on an oil homestead instead of a farm? And what about his dreams of getting an education? He can't leave his siblings after he's promised they would stay together - can he?
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Enemy Brothers (Living History Library)
- By: Constance Savery
- Narrated by: Paul L. Coffey
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
British airman Dym Ingleford is convinced that the young German prisoner, Max Eckermann, is his brother Anthony, who was kidnapped years before. Raised in the Nazi ideology, Tony has by chance tumbled into British hands. Dym has brought him back, at least temporarily, to the family he neither remembers nor will acknowledge as his own.
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Treasures from Grandma's Attic
- Grandma's Attic Series, Book 4
- By: Arleta Richardson
- Narrated by: Susan Hanfield
- Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
This compilation of tales recounts humorous and poignant memories from Grandma Mabel's childhood on a Michigan farm in the late 1800s. Combining the warmth and spirit of Little House on the Prairie with a Christian focus, this book transports listeners back to a simpler time to learn lessons surprisingly relevant in today's world. Richardson's wholesome stories have reached more than two million listeners worldwide.
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Schoolhouse in the Woods
- Fairchild Family Stories, Book 2
- By: Rebecca Caudill
- Narrated by: Mary Sarah Agliotta
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
The Fairchild family is here again, and this time, Bonnie is old enough to begin the great adventure - school! We join Bonnie in the excruciating anticipation of the first day, when she will wear her new dress, carry a first reader and slate, and displaying nonchalance as she braves the swinging bridge - enter into the mysteries of schoolroom learning and playground rites in a woodland setting of the early 1900s.
Publisher's Summary
Nine-year-old Ethan Cooper has managed to keep his family together for a year in a Pennsylvania orphanage. Now he and his siblings are boarding a train headed west. He can't help but worry: Mr. and Mrs. Rush in Nebraska have agreed to adopt all four Cooper children, but what if they change their minds?
In the meantime, Ethan and his siblings encounter their first dust storm, explore train cars, and watch friend after friend leave with new parents. The children dream that soon they will have a new ma and pa too.
Based on the story of a real family, this second book in the historical Beyond the Orphan Train series reminds us that God never leaves us, no matter how far we journey to find home.
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- Fleur
- 12-02-2018
family fun
our family enjoyed this audiobook. we intend to listen to the whole series. i love the history and faith woven into the story. it pulls at your heart strings.
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- Amazon Customer
- 21-06-2021
Great storytelling based on real life
It's delightful to hear positive stories about the orphan trains and how carefully they were planned and run, especially since other authors' orphan train books I've read only tell bad examples. My enjoyment of this series is especially real because this series is based on a man's memories. The storytelling is excellent and the audio reader is superb with voices so I could tell which character was talking before being told. I really like the chapters where each orphan is chosen. A great added feature are the discussion topics at the end of the book!
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