I am finishing up "The Orphan Train" right now. It tells parallel stories of a young American Indian girl in Maine, who is without parents and is doing some community service for a minor crime by helping an elderly woman clean out her attic. The older woman was once an "orphan train" victim, kids who were left abandoned in the NYC area, then shipped out by train to work on Midwestern farms in the Depression. The story has me hooked. The reading is easy and is building up to a conclusion that I hope will be satisfying. I have not read the other book.
I haven't read Founding Mothers, but I read The Orphan Train & liked it very much.
I, too, enjoyed THE ORPHAN TRAIN. Has your F2F club read THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS by M. L. Stedman? They may have read it last year.
Another book that would be good for a book club is CALLING ME HOME by Julie Kibler. I gave it a 90 on the Slopok Scale. http://www.amazon.com/Calling-Me-Home-Julie-Kibler-ebook/dp/B008RVA...
Just read Orphan Train we are going to discuss it in March, also just read light between the Ocean we are reading it later in the year, really liked it, bur reminded me of Secret Garden. Last year we read Calling Me home- really liked it.
Thought you might enjoy CALLING ME HOME as the women go to Cincinnati!
Haven't read either but I heard an interview with Cokie Roberts about the book.
It was originally published ten years ago and now a children picture book version came out.
Here is the interview and excerpt of the book, quite entertaining and informative
http://www.npr.org/2014/01/28/264535480/founding-mothers-helps-kids...
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