Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
The orphan trains trilogy volume 1
Formats
Description
The "orphan train" is the vision of Charles Loring Brace, founder of the Children's Aid Society who cannot bear to see innocent children abandoned in the overpopulated cities of the mid-19th century. However, it is not just the orphans whose lives need mending. Follow the train to see God's hand restore love and laughter to the right family at the right time. Follow the orphan train out West as children's hearts are mended and God's hand restores...
Author
Series
Orphan trains trilogy volume 2
Formats
Description
When 62 orphans and abandoned children leave New York City on a train headed out West, they have no idea what to expect. Will they get separated from their friends or siblings? Will their new families love them? Will a family even pick them at all? Future events are wilder than any of them could imagine -- ranging from kidnappings and whippings to stowing away on wagon trains, from starting orphanages of their own to serving as missionaries to the...
Author
Series
Orphan trains trilogy volume 3
Formats
Description
Waves of immigration had made New York City's streets home to thousands of destitute children. Beginning in 1853 and for the next seven decades, the Children's Aid Society transported trainloads of "orphans" to farms and ranches on the American frontier ... New Ork City, 1871. Fourtenn-year-old Dane Weston comes home to an empty apartment. A gang of teenage boys has murdered his family, shattering his dream of becoming a doctor. Dane's new occupation...