The Midnight Train Home

by Erika Tamar

Book Overview

An orphan train child escapes a coldhearted adoptive family to join a vaudeville troupe and travel to Texas to find her older brother Sean. Deirdre O'Rourke and her brothers Sean and Jimmy are sent by... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0440416701
• ISBN13: 9780440416708
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Yearling Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 10 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 9

Customer Reviews

Very interesting.

"The Midnight Train Home" was a very good story and would be good to read along with "The Orphan Train" books. I think Erika Tamar was successful in portraying how out of place Diedre O'Rourke was when she was adopted. She also makes the reader feel happy at Diedre's happiness. This book shows how some kids were unfortunate in their new adopted homes, while other's had a better life than they had before they were adopted. The author's note in the back was very educational and informative. I just wish Tamar had included an Epilogue. Now I wish she will make a sequel or a spin-off with Rosie France. I recommend.

An engaging novel for young readers.

Deirdre and her siblings are placed on the Orphan Train and farmed out to different homes when their mother can no longer keep them; but their separation haunts Deirdre and when a passing vaudeville troupe gives her the ability to run away in search of her brother, she leaves her new home. Along the way she discovers new talents and pleasures which may change her ideas of re-forming a family in this different perspective of the Orphan Train situation. An engaging novel for young readers.