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One of Vivian who was one of the orphan train children, and one of Molly who’s a Penobscot Indian foster child. The story is written in two timelines that intersect. The writing makes it easy to follow, and tugs at your heartstrings. This book has everything I am looking for in a 5 star read. It made me laugh, cry, and had lovable characters with tragic backstories. To me this story emphasized that the elderly have wonderful stories to share if we are willing to take the time to listen. I was surprised by a few things in this book. 1. Most books that involve indiginous cultures focus on issues of drugs, alcohol, abuse, laziness….the list could go on. This book mentioned some of it as part of Molly’s backstory of how she ended up in foster care. I didn’t feel like the author over emphasized the typical stereotypes I’ve seen in other books. 2. The author used real surnames that would be found in Maine. This isn’t something that would matter to most people, but I grew up in Maine. Seeing true surnames made me love the story that much more. If I were to change anything in this book it would be how the foster parents are depicted. I feel the author really leaned into the typical stereotypes you hear about foster parents even though there are plenty of loving foster parents around. This story does have one scene of SA. It also has a slightly spicy scene in it that seems entirely out of place for the story. There is a young readers edition that may be better suited for those that may be sensitive to SA, but I haven’t personally read it and can’t attest to how much it goes into the account. The history of orphan trains is a sad one that many have never heard about. Between 1854 and 1929 more than 200,000 children (they were homeless, orphaned, or abandoned) were moved to the Midwest to be “adopted”. Most of them ended up being free labor for families and didn’t get to be a child. Review: A Beneficial Tear Jerker - I promised myself I wouldn't cry. As I neared the last pages of Christina Baker Kline's novel, ORPHAN TRAIN, I could guess what had to happen. Any student of orphan train stories would bet that a popular author like Kline would craft a happy ending. I didn't know who or exactly what was coming round the bend, but I knew it had to be an upper. Sure enough, when I read the last pages, despite my firm resolve, I couldn't keep tears from rising. Of course, I'm a sucker for orphan train books, having written one myself: MAIL-ORDER KID: AN ORPHAN TRAIN RIDER'S STORY. I know the kind of research and perhaps even the amount of work Kline had to do to pull off the orphan train elements in her book. She created excellent believable tales of Niamh, a main character, and the strange families who took her in. But Kline steps out of her time period now and then. Little stuff. For instance, she has Niamh, wearing a pigtail in 1929 but pigtails weren't invented until 1951. She has a minor character, Mr. Post, saying, "See you in a jiff" in 1930. "Jiff" wasn't coined until 1943. It came out of the war. A more overt breech was a statement made by Mrs. Scatcherd, agent for the Children's Aid Society. She said to the children,"They call this an orphan train." But they did not, not in 1929. That phrase was invented by two writers, Dorothea G. Petrie and James Magnuson, in their 1978 novel, ORPHAN TRAIN. The book became a highly successful TV show, and after that, the phrase, "orphan train," entered our language. Mrs. Scatcherd shocked me even more when she prayed to "Mary, Mother of God," asking for benevolence regarding the children. Mrs. Scatcherd, working for the Protestant Children's Aid Society, had to be a Protestant herself, and Protestants never pray to the Virgin Mary. Only Catholics. Picky, picky, picky. I know. If I were to review format, I'd be picky there, too. William Morrow put together a good-looking book. The paper, in particular, is delicious. A generous weight and the ragged edges make the pages a delight to handle, but the margins are much too narrow. Cutting costs, probably. Overall, I enjoyed reading this novel. Kline caught me and drew me through her story, although I sometimes had to backtrack to remember who some of her many minor characters were. At other times, I had to flip pages to determine which of her two main characters I was reading about. You'd think it would be easy to distinguish between a ninety-one year old and a seventeen-year-old. And it is--when they're together in the same chapter. But Kline's chapters move back and forth in time, so sometimes the older woman is a teenager, too. I subscribe to Google Alerts, and receive orphan train items, usually daily. When Kline's book came out, the number of orphan train alerts I received skyrocketed. Most featured Kline's novel. This makes me extremely happy. For years, those of us clustered around the National Orphan Train Complex in Concordia, Kansas, have said to one another, "If only there were some way to publicize the Orphan Train movement so it would be received as an established part of American history." Looks as though Kline is doing just that as reader after reader encounters the orphan train as they race through her novel and perhaps, if they're like me, cry a bit at the end. Christina Baker Kline, Orphan Train: A Novel Orphan Train: A Novel Marilyn June Coffey, Mail-Order Kid Mail-Order Kid: An Orphan Train Rider's Story National Orphan Train Complex at [...] ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #4,717,919 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #991 in Literary Fiction (Books) #17,515 in Books on CD | | Customer Reviews | 4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars (80,836) | | Dimensions | 5.5 x 5.5 x 0.25 inches | | Edition | Unabridged | | ISBN-10 | 1491512261 | | ISBN-13 | 978-1491512265 | | Item Weight | 3.5 ounces | | Language | English | | Print length | 9 pages | | Publication date | April 8, 2014 | | Publisher | Brilliance Audio | ## Images ![Orphan Train - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61mh0+vUiCL.jpg) ![Orphan Train - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91K0zCKx1BL.jpg) ![Orphan Train - Image 3](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/318VqinrqPL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great story about a terrible forgotten time in our history *by M***N on February 17, 2025* Orphan Train tells two stories. One of Vivian who was one of the orphan train children, and one of Molly who’s a Penobscot Indian foster child. The story is written in two timelines that intersect. The writing makes it easy to follow, and tugs at your heartstrings. This book has everything I am looking for in a 5 star read. It made me laugh, cry, and had lovable characters with tragic backstories. To me this story emphasized that the elderly have wonderful stories to share if we are willing to take the time to listen. I was surprised by a few things in this book. 1. Most books that involve indiginous cultures focus on issues of drugs, alcohol, abuse, laziness….the list could go on. This book mentioned some of it as part of Molly’s backstory of how she ended up in foster care. I didn’t feel like the author over emphasized the typical stereotypes I’ve seen in other books. 2. The author used real surnames that would be found in Maine. This isn’t something that would matter to most people, but I grew up in Maine. Seeing true surnames made me love the story that much more. If I were to change anything in this book it would be how the foster parents are depicted. I feel the author really leaned into the typical stereotypes you hear about foster parents even though there are plenty of loving foster parents around. This story does have one scene of SA. It also has a slightly spicy scene in it that seems entirely out of place for the story. There is a young readers edition that may be better suited for those that may be sensitive to SA, but I haven’t personally read it and can’t attest to how much it goes into the account. The history of orphan trains is a sad one that many have never heard about. Between 1854 and 1929 more than 200,000 children (they were homeless, orphaned, or abandoned) were moved to the Midwest to be “adopted”. Most of them ended up being free labor for families and didn’t get to be a child. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Beneficial Tear Jerker *by O***. on May 1, 2013* I promised myself I wouldn't cry. As I neared the last pages of Christina Baker Kline's novel, ORPHAN TRAIN, I could guess what had to happen. Any student of orphan train stories would bet that a popular author like Kline would craft a happy ending. I didn't know who or exactly what was coming round the bend, but I knew it had to be an upper. Sure enough, when I read the last pages, despite my firm resolve, I couldn't keep tears from rising. Of course, I'm a sucker for orphan train books, having written one myself: MAIL-ORDER KID: AN ORPHAN TRAIN RIDER'S STORY. I know the kind of research and perhaps even the amount of work Kline had to do to pull off the orphan train elements in her book. She created excellent believable tales of Niamh, a main character, and the strange families who took her in. But Kline steps out of her time period now and then. Little stuff. For instance, she has Niamh, wearing a pigtail in 1929 but pigtails weren't invented until 1951. She has a minor character, Mr. Post, saying, "See you in a jiff" in 1930. "Jiff" wasn't coined until 1943. It came out of the war. A more overt breech was a statement made by Mrs. Scatcherd, agent for the Children's Aid Society. She said to the children,"They call this an orphan train." But they did not, not in 1929. That phrase was invented by two writers, Dorothea G. Petrie and James Magnuson, in their 1978 novel, ORPHAN TRAIN. The book became a highly successful TV show, and after that, the phrase, "orphan train," entered our language. Mrs. Scatcherd shocked me even more when she prayed to "Mary, Mother of God," asking for benevolence regarding the children. Mrs. Scatcherd, working for the Protestant Children's Aid Society, had to be a Protestant herself, and Protestants never pray to the Virgin Mary. Only Catholics. Picky, picky, picky. I know. If I were to review format, I'd be picky there, too. William Morrow put together a good-looking book. The paper, in particular, is delicious. A generous weight and the ragged edges make the pages a delight to handle, but the margins are much too narrow. Cutting costs, probably. Overall, I enjoyed reading this novel. Kline caught me and drew me through her story, although I sometimes had to backtrack to remember who some of her many minor characters were. At other times, I had to flip pages to determine which of her two main characters I was reading about. You'd think it would be easy to distinguish between a ninety-one year old and a seventeen-year-old. And it is--when they're together in the same chapter. But Kline's chapters move back and forth in time, so sometimes the older woman is a teenager, too. I subscribe to Google Alerts, and receive orphan train items, usually daily. When Kline's book came out, the number of orphan train alerts I received skyrocketed. Most featured Kline's novel. This makes me extremely happy. For years, those of us clustered around the National Orphan Train Complex in Concordia, Kansas, have said to one another, "If only there were some way to publicize the Orphan Train movement so it would be received as an established part of American history." Looks as though Kline is doing just that as reader after reader encounters the orphan train as they race through her novel and perhaps, if they're like me, cry a bit at the end. Christina Baker Kline, Orphan Train: A Novel Orphan Train: A Novel Marilyn June Coffey, Mail-Order Kid Mail-Order Kid: An Orphan Train Rider's Story National Orphan Train Complex at [...] ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review *by K***A on January 18, 2018* Hermoso libro con un final inesperado. 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