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The Midnight Train Home

Erika Tamar

When their mother can no longer care for them, eleven-year-old Deirdre and her brothers board the Orphans' Train for placement with families out West, but Deirdre, a talented singer, finds a different type of family when she joins a traveling vaudeville troupe. Includes a note on the Children's Aid Society which operated the orphan trains from 1854 to 1930.

GenresOrphan trainsUnited StatesJuvenile fictionSiblingsVaudevilleChildren's stories

160 pages, 3 editions

English edition · First published 2000 by Random House · ISBN 9780375801594

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Editions

3 editions

English

  • The Midnight Train Home · Random House · 2001 · ISBN 9780375801594 This page
  • The midnight train home · Random House Children's Books · 2002 · ISBN 9780440416708
  • The midnight train home · Knopf · 2000 · ISBN 9780375901591

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