false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173772022m/326681.jpg 326681 2 <div>In mid-nineteenth-century New York, vagrant youth, both orphans and runaways, filled the streets. For years the city had been sweeping these children into prisons or almshouses, but in 1853 the young minister Charles Loring Brace proposed a radical solution to the problem by creating the Children's Aid Society, an organization that fought to provide homeless children with shelter, education, and, for many, a new family in the country. Combining a biography of Brace with firsthand accounts of orphans, Stephen O'Connor here tells of the orphan trains that, between 1854 and 1929, spirited away some 250,000 destitute children to rural homes in every one of the forty-eight contiguous states.<br><br>A powerful blend of history, biography, and adventure, Orphans Trains remains the definitive work on this little-known episode in American history.<br></div> 317323 1 3 2004 Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed total:19|5:2|4:7|3:10| 19 68 36 9 3 1 false false Thu Jan 01 19:47:21 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 19:52:48 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 11 12:02:25 -0700 2008 Thu Feb 26 13:38:58 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Aug 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 18:18:18 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 18:19:46 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 06 08:52:28 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 06 08:55:14 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Aug 02 09:57:40 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 09:58:06 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Fri Jul 20 12:55:10 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 30 11:20:40 -0700 2007 more...]]> 0 0 false false Fri Oct 02 19:09:30 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 02 19:09:39 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Feb 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Dec 28 16:11:17 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 13 08:30:40 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon May 21 11:48:33 -0700 2007 Mon Apr 14 11:31:52 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sat Aug 08 23:21:23 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 08 23:21:23 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Jul 12 13:56:12 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 13:56:12 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Jun 27 20:39:09 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 27 20:39:09 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Tue Jun 30 15:58:57 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 22:51:03 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 15:58:57 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat May 30 01:28:10 -0700 2009 Sat May 30 01:28:10 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat May 23 13:57:05 -0700 2009 Sat May 23 13:57:23 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Apr 15 16:01:47 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 16:01:59 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Mar 12 09:17:23 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 12 09:17:23 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Feb 20 10:08:05 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 20 10:08:05 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Mon Feb 16 20:33:11 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 16 20:33:11 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Feb 09 21:52:46 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 21:52:55 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=326681