Orphan Train: A Novel by Christina Baker Kline (Discussion Prompts)

“Christina Baker Kline’s #1 New York Times bestselling novel entitled Orphan Train is set between the years 1854 and 1929. During this time, the so-called orphan trains regularly ran from the cities along the East Coast going to the farmlands of the Midwest. These trains carried thousands of abandoned children. Their fates would then be determined by pure luck.
Vivian Daly was such a child. She was a young Irish immigrant who was sent by rail from New York City to an uncertain future one tra...