orphan trains

Eleven-year-old orphan train rider David Howard settles with a strict Texas farm family, and his best friend is an ex-slave who is threatened by the growing presence of the Ku Klux Klan.

In the mid-1800s, 10,000 homeless children prowled the streets of New York City.Children's Aid Society in New York snet more than 150,000 children to framing communities to begin new lives with foster families.

Story of Billy, a streetwise kid from NYC, sent to Nebraska where he is taken in by a Swedish farm family as part of the historic Orphan Train program of the Midwest at the turn of the century.

Emily is devastated when her mother puts her and her brother James into an orphanage, and vows to find her way back home again.

Hannah and ten other children travel to Texas together, where they hope to be adopted.

Danny Murphy hopes to find a better life with his new adoptive family, but instead he feels trapped and alone.

Rizzo travels to Illinois on the Orphan Train in the hopes of finding a family to adopt him and give him a new life.

An orphan boy from Boston travels on an "orphan train" to Michigan, where he is adopted by a farmer and his wife, but they soon leave the farm for the copper mines of the Upper Peninsula.

Explores the history of orphan trains, which took orphaned children from large cities to the American West for a chance at a new life, providing different points of view.