Orphan Train

I recently read the book entitled, "The Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline. This book is based on the historical event where under the welfare program over 250,000 children were relocated to foster homes in the Midwest between 1853 and 1929. Many came from eastern cities like New York due to overcrowded situations. This book takes a look at present day foster situation and compares it to the orphan trains. Molly, a Penobscot Indian will soon turn 18 and leave the foster care system.  She meets Vivian an Irish immigrant who was an orphan train survivor and both orphans review their experience when they work together on cleaning out Vivian's attic. In this process they eventually free themselves from what memories haunt their past.