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"... 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 troubled adolescence leads her to seek answers to questions no one has ever thought to ask."
This book was amazing!! My grandma was on the orphan train, so I feel like I can connect to this book on a whole new level. I am very aware that my grandmother did not have a good life. The family that adopted her was very m ...more
This book was amazing!! My grandma was on the orphan train, so I feel like I can connect to this book on a whole new level. I am very aware that my grandmother did not have a good life. The family that adopted her was very m ...more
Being an adoptive parent, this book touched my heart. Niamh (Dorothy, Vivian) immigrates to NYC from Ireland. Her family is lost in an apartment fire, and Niamh (pronounced Neeve)) is taken by the Children's Aid Society and instead of being placed in an orphanage or foster home in NYC, she is placed on an "Orphan Train" which was a welfare program that moved orphans from the large cities on the eastern seaboard to the Midwest in hope of finding the children homes. Trains stopped in cities along
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I really loved this book! I was reading it for my book club at the library. I really like how this book is written. The story is told from two different perspective. The first perspective comes from Molly, who is living with her foster parents. Her home life is not good because she and her foster mom don't get along. Things escalate when Molly steals a copy of Jane Eyre from the library. She gets on and is put on probation. In order not get sent back into foster care, she agrees to help clean ou
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What an outstanding book! I was hooked from the very beginning as I learned about the history of orphan trains and what they eventuated. This has been a year that I've enjoyed several historical fiction books, and this one is definitely joining the list. The book follows the story of Vivian, an orphan train rider in the late 1920s, and Molly, a teenager in 2011. My favorite part of this book was learning about the journey on these trains that so many orphan children took in the 1920s and 1930s a
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I enjoyed the book and really didn't want it to end. I wanted to hear more. I would have liked to hear more about the orphan trains, the history and such, but overall I am happy with this read.
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Wow! Another book full of American history I knew nothing about. Made me cry (of course) and determined to learn more.
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