Orphan Train Angel Seeker
Orphan Train Angel Seeker

Author: Peggy McGee

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-05-15

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9781533108395

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"Orphan Train Angel Seeker" is the newest book of the inspiring and popular "Orphan Train Adventures". Angela, a beautiful child with auburn hair, was fortunate to be adopted locally in NYC after her parents died, while her brothers were placed during an Orphan Train excursion in a Midwestern farm community in 1914. During her high school years, her adopted parents decided to board her at a Catholic Convent School. Not desiring to become a nun but to ultimately reunite Orphan Train families, the principal finds a position for her at a Children's Home in nearby Chicago where she also secures contract work with the Pinkerton Agency. She falls for the young director, not realizing that he has associations with the Mob, putting her in danger. As a mentor to a younger orphan, both of their lives take flight while attempting to find love and stability in all of the wrong places. Despite her many admirers, Angela cannot get one out of her mind. But, can he protect her from the Mob and ultimately seek her out to ask for her forgiveness and love? A heartwarming novel about families wanting to come together, and an 'angel' named Angela who seeks to make this all possible.

Orphan Train Girl
Orphan Train Girl

Author: Christina Baker Kline

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2017-05-02

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 0062445960

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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 been in foster care since she was eight years old. Most of the time, Molly knows it’s her attitude that’s the problem, but after being shipped from one family to another, she’s had her fair share of adults treating her like an inconvenience. So when Molly’s forced to help an a wealthy elderly woman clean out her attic for community service, Molly is wary. But from the moment they meet, Molly realizes that Vivian isn’t like any of the adults she’s encountered before. Vivian asks Molly questions about her life and actually listens to the answers. Soon Molly sees they have more in common than she thought. Vivian was once an orphan, too—an Irish immigrant to New York City who was put on a so-called "orphan train" to the Midwest with hundreds of other children—and she can understand, better than anyone else, the emotional binds that have been making Molly’s life so hard. Together, they not only clear boxes of past mementos from Vivian’s attic, but forge a path of friendship, forgiveness, and new beginnings.

An Unexpected Family
An Unexpected Family

Author: Zoë Matthews

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-06-02

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 9781514765913

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Between 1850 and 1930, around 250,000 abandoned and orphaned children traveled from the east coast of the United States to various cities and towns throughout the nation on what would be known as the orphan trains. Most came from New York City.Posters were placed around town advertising "Homes Wanted for Orphans" and usually a committee was formed to help facilitate the adoption. These children were supposed to be adopted and treated as family members but this was not always the case however, and sometimes they were placed in less than ideal circumstances.Despite this loosely structured plan, many children did find loving homes and people who cared for their needs.

The Orphan Train
The Orphan Train

Author: Steve Brigman

Publisher:

Published: 2014-03-03

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9781937327415

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TEN-YEAR-OLD JAMES CANNOT IMAGINE THE FATE THAT AWAITS HIM AND THE PRETTY LITTLE GIRL WHO SITS NEXT TO HIM ON THE INFAMOUS ORPHAN TRAIN. ..".a superb, coarse-grained voice that makes you want more...the Ozark's new narrator who will stand with Alan Le May, A.B. Guthrie, and of course, the above-mentioned Greg Matthews."-Reavis Z. Wortham, author of the "Red River Mystery Series." James is ten when he is taken from a New York orphanage and sent out west on one of the infamous orphan trains, meeting a pretty little girl on his journey who will one day become the core of his existence and the source of his deepest despair. "Gripping from the first sentence to the last-I could not put this book down...An outstanding debut novel from author Steve Brigman."-Diane Moody, author of "Of Windmills and War" and "A Runaway Pastor's Wife." "Brigman is an excellent writer. I could see the characters vividly in my mind as I read the story."-Rolland Love, author of "Blue Hole" and "River's Edge."

Orphan Train
Orphan Train

Author: Christina Baker Kline

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9781624903298

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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 of other children whose destinies would be determined by luck and chance. Molly discovers that she has the power to help Vivian find answers to mysteries that have haunted her for her entire life -- answers that will ultimately free them both.

The Orphan Train Trilogy
The Orphan Train Trilogy

Author: Jane Peart

Publisher:

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 580

ISBN-13:

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In 1890, three 8-year old orphan girls head west on the "Orphan Train"-Laurel, Toddy and Kit go to live in Meadowridge.

A Family Apart
A Family Apart

Author: Joan Lowery Nixon

Publisher: Starfire

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13:

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When their mother can no longer support them, six siblings are sent by the Children's Aid Society of New York City to live with farm families in Missouri in 1860. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.