The midnight train home
By: Erika Tamar
Publisher: Dell Yearling
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780440416708
Subjects: Vaudeville; Performing arts; Brothers and sisters; Orphan trains; 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.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Knopf, 2000.