Summary Of Orphan Train

The book Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline is a historical fiction about a seventeen-year-old girl named Molly who is in foster care. She meets Vivian, ninety-one year old women, while doing community service.The two women both did not have fathers nor their mothers in their life, resulting in both of them growing up in foster care. While Molly is working for Vivian she learns about Vivian's life story. Vivian, an Irish immigrant, became an orphan as a young child and was put on a train with other orphans from New York to Minnesota called the Orphan Train. Vivian lived with multiple families until finally adopted by the Nielsens who renamed her Vivian. She eventually married another orphan she met on the train and they had a daughter, but