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      • Organized by reformers in the Eastern United States, the program swept children westward in an attempt to both remove them from the squalor and poverty of the city and help provide labor for farms out west.
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  2. Get all the key plot points of Christina Baker Kline's Orphan Train on one page. From the creators of SparkNotes.

  3. Summary and Study Guide. Overview. Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline recounts the stories of two extraordinary women: Vivian, a 91 year-old wealthy retiree, and 17 year-old Molly, a troubled orphan living in foster-care.

  4. Apr 11, 2013 · A young Irish girl, Niamh (pronounced "Neeve"), has just lost her entire family after a fire ripped through their tenement building. She is turned over to authorities who put her on a train bound...

  5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Orphan_TrainOrphan Train - Wikipedia

    The Orphan Train Movement was a supervised welfare program that transported children from crowded Eastern cities of the United States to foster homes located largely in rural areas of the Midwest. The orphan trains operated between 1854 and 1929, relocating from about 200,000 children.

  6. Apr 25, 2020 · A beautifully crafted historical novel that tells the story of an Irish immigrant who was sent on an orphan train to the Midwest during the Great Depression and a foster child in the present day.

  7. Apr 2, 2013 · In those decades, Vivian travels West, endures the Byrnes and Grotes, finds a loving home with the Nielsens, reconnects with Dutchy, another orphan-train refugee, marries and is widowed when Dutchy dies in the war.

  8. West by Orphan Train. Summaries. It seems incomprehensible that there was a time in America's not-so-distant past when nearly a quarter of a million children from East Coast orphanages were loaded on trains and sent west, where they were presented "for the picking."

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