Title: The midnight train home
First published: 2000
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.
Subjects: Fiction, Vaudeville, Performing arts, Brothers and sisters, Orphan trains, Children's fiction, Performing arts, fiction, Orphans, fiction, Brothers and sisters, fiction, Siblings, fiction
LC classification: PZ7.T159 Mi 2000