num_pages: 48
description: Recounts the experiences of abandoned, orphaned, or homeless children from city orphanages in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who were sent out by the trainload to find families that would adopt them or take them as workers.
language: English
title: Children of the Orphan Trains
titlecomplete: Children of the Orphan Trains (Picture the American Past)
genres: History
ratings_count: 18
publisher: Carolrhoda Books