Friday, January 23, 2015

Orphan Train / Christina Baker Kline / 278 p.


I read this historical novel for my book club. I had no idea that the orphan trains ran well into the 20th century--the last being in 1929. Kline tells this story through the voice of a 90 year old woman, Vivian, looking back at her experience as a child who was sent from New York City to Minnesota on one of the last orphan trains. The story is framed in present time with Molly who is a teenager in foster care and is assisting Vivian in a project to clean out her attic. Despite the sadness, this is a sweet story that I could easily recommend to teens as well as adults. 

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