The midnight train home
By: Erika Tamar.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Knopf; Random House Children's Books
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
Subjects: Orphan trains -- Fiction.; Brothers and sisters -- Fiction.; Vaudeville -- Fiction.; Performing arts -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: When their mother can no longer care for them, eleven-year-old Deirdre and her brothers board the  Orphans' Train for placement with families out West, but Deirdre, a talented singer, finds a different type of family when she joins a traveling vaudeville troupe. Includes a note on the Children's Aid Society which operated the orphan trains from 1854 to 1930.