She’s put on an orphan train headed to west, where she and hundreds of other children hope they’ll be adopted. The other story is of a little Irish girl, Niamh, who comes to America with her family in the early 1900s and then finds herself alone when her entire family is killed in a tenement fire. With her foster family already not thrilled to have her, Molly knows she just needs to keep it together until she turns 18 and is out of the system, so she finds a community service project helping a rich old lady, Vivian, sort through ten bazillion boxes in her attic. The first one follows Molly, a seventeen-year-old in Maine who has bounced from foster home to foster home and now finds herself about half a step from getting sent to juvenile detention for stealing a book. There are two story lines going on here and the narrative switches back and forth between the two. In fact, one night, Bart fell asleep while I was still getting ready for bed and in the morning he commented on what a great night sleep we’d had since we’d gone to bed so early and I admitted that I’d stayed up an extra hour or more reading Orphan Train after I realized he was asleep.
The hold lists were FOREVER long for it, and when I got a Kindle copy of it from my library, I knew there was no way I’d be able to get it renewed in the next year, so I resorted to turning my Kindle on airplane mode until I finished so it wouldn’t automatically return to the library (this also meant I couldn’t download any NEW books, so I had multiple incentives to fly through this book).īut once I was a couple of chapters in, no incentives were needed because I was completely sucked into this story.
Orphan Train was one of the 11 books on my list this summer (if you’re keeping track – and I hope you aren’t – I’ve now read a whopping four of them).
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