Nettie and Nellie Crook

Description:

Twin sisters Nettie and Nellie Crook are taken away from their disfunctional parents in 1910 when they are only five years old, and placed in an orphanage--at six they are put on the orphan train by the Children's Aid Society and moved from New York City to Kansas, ending up in a household where they are treated more as servants than children.

subjects: Child abuse,  Children's Aid Society (New York, N.Y.),  Juvenile fiction,  Fiction,  Twins,  Orphan trains,  Sisters,  Orphans,  History,  Children's fiction,  Orphans, fiction,  Twins, fiction,  Sisters, fiction,  New york (n.y.), fiction,  Kansas, fiction

Places: New York (State),  Kansas,  New York (N.Y.),  New York

Times: 20th century,  1898-1951