The author of _Bird in Hand_ and _The Way Life Should Be_ delivers her most ambitious and powerful novel to date: a captivating story of two very different women who build an unexpected friendship: a 91-year-old woman with a hidden past as an orphan-train rider and the teenage girl whose own trouble
Orphan Train
โ Scribed by Kline, Christina Baker
- Book ID
- 107717478
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Tongue
- German
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780061950728
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๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
Between 1854 and 1929, so-called orphan trains ran regularly from the cities of the East Coast to the farmlands of the Midwest, carrying thousands of abandoned children whose fates would be determined by pure luck. Would they be adopted by a kind and loving family, or would they face a childhood and
Brothers Theodore and Rollie are excited to welcome their father home from fighting in the American civil war. The excitement is short lived and in a matter of days the two boys find themselves standing on the front steps of an orphanage. They try to adjust to life without parents, but as soon as th