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Orphan Train
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February 12, 2016
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February 22, 2016
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By Alexia Safieh

“Orphan Train” is a historical novel based on the original orphan train that transported thousands of orphans and homeless children from the cities of the East Coast to the farmlands of the Midwest (from 1854 to 1929). The children who rode this train faced the uncertainty of either being placed with a loving family that would take them in as their own or being used for child labor and servitude; they all had different lives.

Vivi is an elderly widowed woman who narrates her stor
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