(4) 4-6 Orphan Train Children series. Each novel tells about a child who rides an orphan train to Missouri in 1866. Independent Aggie finds a home with a like-minded family and discovers the women's suffrage movement. David encounters the Ku Klux Klan because of an ex-slave friend, but he too finds his niche. The protagonists and their stories are appealing, though predictable, and will likely attract younger readers of historical fiction. Background information is appended.

Reviewer: Martha Sibert

(4) 4-6 Orphan Train Children series. Each novel tells about a child who rides an orphan train to Missouri in 1866. Independent Aggie finds a home with a like-minded family and discovers the women's suffrage movement. David encounters the Ku Klux Klan because of an ex-slave friend, but he too finds his niche. The protagonists and their stories are appealing, though predictable, and will likely attract younger readers of historical fiction. Background information is appended.

Reviewer: Martha Sibert

(4) 4-6 Orphan Train Children series. These short novels follow two of the children chaperoned by Frances Mary Kelly from Nixon's Orphan Train series as they leave New York to find homes with families in Missouri. The neatly executed plots are predictable yet entertaining, and the main characters are drawn distinctly enough to engender sympathy. An afterword of historical background and photos from the time period (mid-1800s) accompany each story.

Reviewer: The Horn Book, Inc.

(4) 4-6 Orphan Train Children series. These short novels follow two of the children chaperoned by Frances Mary Kelly from Nixon's Orphan Train series as they leave New York to find homes with families in Missouri. The neatly executed plots are predictable yet entertaining, and the main characters are drawn distinctly enough to engender sympathy. An afterword of historical background and photos from the time period (mid-1800s) accompany each story.

Reviewer: The Horn Book, Inc.