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Christina Baker Kline

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      • Orphan Train Girl: The Young Readers’ Edition of Orphan Train
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For More Info

  • Lesson Plans, Study Guides, and more on BookRags.com
  • “Vivian’s Choice: An Expanded Scene from Orphan Train” Harper Collins, 12/13/2016
  • Wikipedia Page: Orphan Train
  • FAQs about the orphan trains (National Orphan Train Complex)
  • Real-life train rider stories (National Orphan Train Complex)
  • Orphan Train Riders of New York website
  • President of the New York Train Riders (and train rider descendant) Renee Wendinger’s website
  • One Book, One Community pick in 2014 by the Hutchinson Leader (MN)
  • A Train Ticket and Popular Novel Solved this Adoption Mystery
  • Six Thematic Lists for When Your Book List Overwhelms (Yakima Herald Republic, WA)

COMING MAY 2026: THE FOURSOME

A literary historical novel set in Civil War-era North Carolina, based on a true family story and told from the perspective of Sarah Bunker, one of two sisters who married Chang and Eng, the famous conjoined twins…learn more

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