# A Family Apart

**Author:** Joan Lowery Nixon
**Grade range:** Grades 6–8
**Age range:** 11–13
**First published:** 1987
**Page count:** 162
**Genre:** Realistic Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780440226765`
**ISBN-10:** `0440226767`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/a-family-apart
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

When their widowed mother can no longer support them, six siblings are sent on the orphan train by the Children's Aid Society of New York City to live with farm families in Missouri in 1860.

## Themes

- family, fiction
- family, juvenile literature
- foster home care
- brothers and sisters

## Where this book is assigned

### Virginia Readers' Choice

- **recommended** · 6th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 1991-1992 winner (Middle)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)
- **recommended** · 7th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 1991-1992 winner (Middle)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)
- **recommended** · 8th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 1991-1992 winner (Middle)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)

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