This is a fascinating novel about the Orphan Trains that came about during the 1920s and 1930s in the United States. Young children were placed on trains and sent to the mid-West where they were placed in foster homes. Often the new foster parents wanted only an extra helping hand to work around the house or farm.
This novel was about the friendship of a 90-year old woman who had once been such an orphan and a young, troubled girl who was bouncing from foster home to foster home in Maine.
I enjoyed the book, but it fell apart at the end.
4 stars
Read: June 7, 2014
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