“Christina Baker Kline's Orphan Train is a poignant and memorable story of two steadfast, courageous women—one young, one old—and their discovery of each ...

The Orphan Train Movement was a supervised welfare program that transported children from crowded Eastern cities of the United States to foster homes ...

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Oct 21, 2020 · While they operated, Orphan Trains moved approximately 200,000 children from cities like New York and Boston to the American West to be adopted.

“Christina Baker Kline is a relentless storyteller. Once she sets her hook and starts reeling you in, struggle becomes counterproductive.

Between 1854 and 1929, so-called “orphan trains” transported more than 200,000 orphaned, abandoned, and homeless children – many of them first-generation Irish ...

Rich in detail and epic in scope, Orphan Train is a powerful novel of upheaval and resilience, of second chances, of unexpected friendship, and of the secrets ...

Jan 28, 2019 · They were part of what is now known as the orphan train movement, a sweeping attempt to protect homeless, poor and orphaned children in a time ...

Apr 2, 2013 · In this book, Vivian is an orphaned Irish immigrant at just nine years old, and she finds herself on one of the orphan trains. The 1920s/30s ...