El Tren de Los Huerfanos / Orphan Train (Hardcover)

from AgneJakubauskaite

WHAT IS IT ABOUT? Christina Baker Kline's novel "Orphan Train" juxtaposes two touching life stories of unlikely friends, a 17-year-old Penobscot Indian Molly and a rich 91-year-old widow Vivian. Although at first these two women seem to have little in common, their unenviable fates are not that d...

from rosalita

In the late 1920s, a young Irish girl is orphaned when the rest of her family dies in a New York City tenement fire. She is among thousands of such abandoned children who were rounded up and put onto "orphan trains" that took them to new homes in the Midwest and elsewhere. It all sounds so wholes...

from lrobe190

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 ...

from cyncie

What a beautifully written story, about a young Irish immigrant who loses her family shortly after arriving in America and is placed on an orphan train, to endure all sorts of hardships and trials and ultimately success and redemption. Her life story is one of tremendous heartbreak and fortitude ...

from Briars_Reviews

Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline is a beautiful novel following the lives of two girls who have become orphans. Molly Ayer is almost eighteen and is living through the child welfare system. It's not easy and she hasn't had the best of lives, but she's doing alright. She finds herself in a b...