Title: Last train home
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.
Subjects: Orphan trains, Fiction, Orphans, Homeless children, Fiction, historical, general, Family