The Midnight Train Home
By Erika Tamar.
Description
A heartwarming story of a young girl’s search for a family in the 1920s–from the orphan train to the vaudeville stage.When the O’Rourkes were kicked out of their New York City tenement apartment, 11-year-old Deirdre was sure their mother would find a way to keep them together. Instead, she put Deirdre and her brothers on an orphan train to be adopted by families out west. That was bad enough. But then Deirdre is separated from her siblings and taken in by a coldhearted minister and his wife. Desperate to find her brothers, Deirdre begs a passing vaudeville troupe to let he...
ISBN(s)
0440416701, 9780440416708