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Orphan Train
Christina Baker Kline
William Morrow Paperbacks: 2013, 278 pages
Reviewed by Tori Lyons
This book skips back and forth between the first-person narrative of Niamh and the third-person narrative of Molly. Niamh is a young Irish immigrant who boards an orphan train to find a new family in the Midwest after she is orphaned in New York City around 1930. Molly is a foster kid in modern day Maine. In order to fulfill a community service requirement, she begins helping 91-year-old Vivian clean out her attic. As Vivian and Molly spend more time together, they discover that they have more in common than either suspected.
