Orphan Train

by Dorothea Petrie and James Magnuson

Book Overview

This tender novel vividly recreates life in the 1850s when tens of thousands of abandoned, homeless children roamed the streets of New York City. As twenty-eight-year-old Emma Symns is placed in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0449240576
• ISBN13: 9780449240571
• Release Date: December 1979
• Publisher: Fawcett Books
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Exciting Book!

I read this book and really enjoyed it. I decided to write a review for it because I didn't agree with the last one. The main character is Emma Symns , a woman who takes 27 orphan children from New York on a train out west to find families for them. While reading the book , you see glimpses of the different children's points of view and you get a idea of what America was like at that time. It is a Fiction book , so don't read it looking for facts and real stories. I really liked the story this book told and it got me interested in the real Orphan Trains of that time. :) Kiki