Orphan Train

This novel explores the unexpected friendship between a 91-year-old woman with a hidden past as an orphan-train rider and a troubled teenage girl on the cusp of "aging out" of the child welfare system. As she helps the elderly woman sort through her possessions and memories, the girl discovers parallels to her own life, both as an outsider being raised by strangers and as someone with unanswered questions about the past. Orphan Train is a powerful novel of upheaval and resilience, of second chances, of unexpected friendship, and of the secrets we carry that keep us from finding out who we are.