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Orphan Train, by Christina Baker Kline
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Stripped of family and identity, fed meager rations, consigned to hard wooden seats until we are to be, as Slobbery Jack suggested, sold into slavery our mere existence is punishment enough.†
p. 44.2 *
Many items are rationed—meat, cheese, butter, lard, coffee, sugar, silk, nylon, shoes; our entire way of business changes as we work with those flimsy blue booklets.†
p. 240.1

rationed = restricted in the amount each person could have
We learn to make change for ration stamps, giving red point tokens as change for red stamps (for meat and butter) and blue point tokens for blue stamps (processed foods).†
p. 240.1
Last-minute flight-deck drills in the dark, the preparations of sea bags, every corner filled and every piece in place, from rations to ammunition.†
p. 243.1

Definitions:

(1) (ration)
a fixed share of something, especially scarce goods like food or fuel; or to limit and distribute something in fixed shares
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)