Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
"Penobscot Indian Molly Ayer is close to 'aging out' out of the foster care system. A community service position helping an elderly woman clean out her home is the only thing keeping Molly out of juvie and worse.... As she helps Vivian sort through her possessions and memories, Molly learns that she and Vivian aren't as different as they seem to be. A young Irish immigrant orphaned in New York City, Vivian was put on a train to the Midwest with hundreds...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
The #1 New York Times Bestseller
Now featuring a sneak peek at Christina's forthcoming novel The Exiles, coming August 2020.
"A lovely novel about the search for family that also happens to illuminate a fascinating and forgotten chapter of America's history. Beautiful."—Ann Packer
Between 1854 and 1929, so-called orphan trains ran regularly from the
...Author
Series
Hearts on the rails volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bridget Collins is in dire straits -- she needs to get out of New York, fast. With two young siblings under her wing, her options are limited. Her priest sends her as an outplacement agent on the orphan trains that run from New York to out west. With almost forty orphans under her care, she's relieved fellow and more experienced outplacement agent Carl Watson, is there to guide her. But Carl is dealing with his own trauma and finds it difficult to...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This young readers' edition of Christina Baker Kline's #1 New York Times bestselling novel Orphan Train follows a twelve-year-old foster girl who forms an unlikely bond with a ninety-one-year-old woman.
Adapted and condensed for a young audience, Orphan Train Girl includes an author's note and archival photos from the orphan train era. This book is especially perfect for mother/daughter reading groups.
Molly Ayer has
...Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
228 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents a young reader's version of a story in which Molly, close to aging out of the foster care system, takes a position helping an elderly woman named Vivian and discovers that they are more alike than different as she helps Vivian solve a mystery from her past.
Author
Series
Orphan train novels (Jody Hedlund) volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
One of the many immigrants struggling to survive in 1850s New York, Elise Neumann knows she must take action to care for her younger sisters. She finds a glimmer of hope when the New York Children's Aid Society starts sending skilled workers to burgeoning towns out west. But the promise of the Society's orphan trains is not all that it seems. Born into elite New York society, Thornton Quincy possesses everything except the ability to step out from...
10) Together forever
Author
Series
Orphan train novels (Jody Hedlund) volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Marianne Neumann takes a job as a placing agent with the Children's Aid Society in hopes of finding her younger sister. In 1858 New York she finds it's not always easy to offer children a better life. Former schoolteacher Andrew Brady suffers from a grief that won't go away-- and keeps hidden a secret from his past. As the two team up to place orphans across Illinois, a shocking tragedy threatens their work-- and changes one of their lives forever....
Author
Series
Orphan train novels (Jody Hedlund) volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1850, Sophie Neumann flees New York with her two young charges after witnessing a crime. Reinhold Weiss has finally purchased his own small farm when an old friend shows up, pleading for help. But how can he help her when mounting debts and past scars still haunt him?"--
1850. After witnessing a crime, Sophie Neumann needs to flee New York with her two young charges. She manages to find passage to Illinois on an orphan train, with the aid of...
13) Orphan train
Author
Pub. Date
[1978]
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1853, twenty-seven abandoned children travel west to find new homes and lives.
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
112 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Describes the people and events involved in the orphan trains. The reader's choices reveal the historical details from the perspectives of a New York City newsboy, a child trying to keep his siblings together, and a child sent west on the baby trains"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Hearts on the rails volume 5
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Two New York girls, Maria Mezza and Alice Doe wake up one November morning in 1906. Their lives are about to change forever. Maria is heading to her first job in a shirtwaist factory wishing she was heading to the country side. Alice is leaving New York to find a new family in Illinois country side. Three years later, the paths of the two girls will converge once more. Gone is the innocence of youth yet both girls are desperately hoping their lives...
19) Keeping secrets
Author
Series
Orphan Train adventures volume 6
Language
English
Description
In 1863, eleven-year-old Peg Kelly is drawn into the dangerous activities of a mysterious young woman who had come to her home in Missouri after fleeing the raid of William Quantrill and his raiders on Lawrence, Kansas.
Author
Series
Hearts on the rails volume 2
Pub. Date
[2018?]
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Bella Jones and Kathleen Collins are as close as sisters and that's how they want things to stay. But fate intervenes. Kathleen's brothers have disappeared, they traveled from New York on the Orphan Train and nobody has heard from them since. She can't shed her gut feeling something awful has happened to them. She goes looking for them but is she prepared for what she will find? Twins, Megan and Eileen Doyle have lost so much already. Bella can't...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try suggesting a purchase. Submit Request
