Last train home
By: Renee Wendinger
Publisher: Legendary Publications
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Sleepy Eye, MN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 153
ISBN-13: 9780991360307
Subjects: Orphan trains; Fiction; Orphans; Homeless children
Description: An American story about cultural identity and family history set during the nineteenth century at a time when America received an enormous influx of immigrants, and a quarter of a million children were sent west from East Coast cities to America's heartland by orphan trains. The story traces the individual journeys of two children, Johnny and Sophia, bringing about the distinction between the 'placing out' of these children to find families and homes.
Notes: An abridged historical fiction regarding the largest mass migration of children known as the orphan trains.