A Family Apart by Joan Lowery Nixon
/Imagine what you would do if your mother told you that she knew she couldn’t give you the life you deserve and so was going to put you on a train to find a better life with another family. What would you do? That was something that actually happened in the 1800s. Thousands of orphaned, abandoned or homeless children were put on the Orphan Train to be adopted by western families who were looking for children to love or cheap labor. This book is about Frances Mary and her brothers and sisters and their quest to reunite after they’re split up on the orphan train.