Leif Garrett as a young foosball player who wants to earn the big dollars that will be used to play soccer in Europe by winning the foosball world championships. The Wanderers is a teenage, Italian gang in Bronx, NYC, 1963. Vivian's story is the subject of the book, the Orphan Train.

I've read a couple fictional accounts of what these orphan trains were like and it always amazes me that there was something like that in this country. I jumped in and looked at the description and looked forward to reading it. The writing style is very simplistic and elementary, which is fine for a YA book. We’d love your help. [she actually has a drunken father around somewhere Orphan Train is an unfortunate train wreck of generic, formulaic, historical fiction plotting and all the subtlety and nuance of a Mack truck.

I jumped in and looked at the description and looked forward to reading it. The author did appear to do her research, so I'm not sure why she chose not to include more of it.3.5 stars. I found myself drawn to Vivian's chapters more than Molly's (not that Molly's chapters were boring or anything). They went out west, and her mother died several years later in child birth. "...Dina listens to conservative talk radio, belongs to …

You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. But nearly all the foster families were exactly the same: strong-willed wives who didn't want to foster children married to milquetoast husbands who (for some reason) did. Here's an ad.As a Midwesterner, I was really interested in this book after hearing it featured on NPR. I received this book for my birthday and it was not one that I had heard about. Her novels have received the New England Prize for Fiction, the Maine Literary Award, and a Barnes & Noble Discover Award, among other prizes, and have been chosen by hundreds of communities, universities and schools as “One Book,A #1 New York Times bestselling author of eight novels, including The Exiles, Orphan Train, and A Piece of the World, Christina Baker Kline is published in 40 countries. I thought this book would give me a deeper understanding of what it was like to be a child enslaved by this plan concocted by the Children's Aid Society. Of course not all of them found a loving family, many were treated like indentured servants, and many were abused.

The present day story also focuses on Vivian and her relationship with Molly, a teenager who is has been bounced around from foster home to foster home and is about the age out of the foster care system.This is another one of those "this book could have been so much better" books.

It definitely should be. Was this review helpful to you? This is the story of one girl who is now an old lady and is telling her story to a girl who is helping her clear out her attic. Welcome back. The main narrative about Vivian, an Orphan Train rider, was excellent. The Museum and Research Center are dedicated to the preservation of the stories and artifacts of those who were part of the Orphan Train Movement from 1854-1929. In 1854, there were living on the streets of New York City over 10,000 abandoned orphaned children. I had never heard of these "Orphan Trains," and still find it heartbreaking to see just how horribly humans can treat one another, especially children. Out of this desperate situation was born the orphan Train. Kansas State Historical Society An orphan train arrives in Kansas. The movement was created in 1853 by Protestant minister Charles Loring Brace, …

Vivian and Molly's surprising friendship feels sincere and respectful. It's amazingly tragic how screwed up the foster care system really was in America during the late '20s-early '30s. They have their confrontations with other gangs.

I certainly didn't find it an adult book.

What I did not know was that these orphan trains actually ran for over seventy years, from 1854 until 1929 and that some two hundred thousand children were put on these trains. She was pregnant and when she got back, she had a child that was not listed on the papers. Molly and Vivian both help each other and come to terms with what for Vivian is the end of her life, with a big surprise thrown in, and for Molly what is the beginning.

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