Damn life in the early 1900s was hard and the things that were allowed back then I can't even! Trains transporting hundreds of thousands of vulnerable orphaned children to be sold off like cattle. Appalling and fascinating and I devoured this book in a couple of days thereby breaking a bit of a slum...
Molly Ayer is seventeen and has been kicked around the foster system in Maine for a good part of her life. With her current family, she doesn't quite fit in; her foster mom isn't too sure of Molly and is convinced that she is a bad kid. When Molly is caught stealing a copy of Jane Eyre from the li...
I found the recounting of the circumstances under which the children grew up difficult to stomach. This history is not specific to the US, but can be found in other places as well. it reflects a view on children's worth and rights that is very different than what it is today (for the most part). I l...
When Molly, a troubled teen who has spent her life in the foster system, steals a book and is forced to make up for it by helping an old woman clean out her attic (yeah, that makes sense), she has no idea the ways in which it will affect her life. Vivian shares with Molly tales of her heartbreaking ...
This is another of those books I might not have discovered if it weren't for our Free Little Library at work. It turned up on the shelf and I thought I would give it a whirl. I loved it.Molly is a foster kid who is about to age out, and is very troubled. When she is caught trying to steal a copy of ...
I particularly enjoy books that teach me about something that I didn't even realise I didn't know, and this was one of those. Between 1854 and 1929, thousands of orphaned children were transported from the east to the west coasts of America by trains, dubbed The Orphan Trains. These children were ad...
From Goodreads: Nearly eighteen, Molly Ayer knows she has one last chance. Just months from "aging out" of the child welfare system, and close to being kicked out of her foster home, a community service position helping an elderly woman clean out her home is the only thing keeping her out of juvie a...
The book I just read was terrible. It’s so bad, I thought that I might be the victim a literary candid camera type gag, where I would get to the last page and read “HA HA HA… you just read the fake parody version of Orphan Train.” Everything about this book was bad. Each and every character was stra...
This is more of a 2.6 rating. Christina Baker Kline's Orphan Train is a very popular book. It's running rampant among book clubs, in fact, it was chosen for my book club, and women have been very favorable towards it, in fact, it was chosen for my women authors book club. However, sadly to say, Or...
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