I love this whole series!!

This book is very cute and the children characters will melt your heart. I really enjoyed this book but, some parts are a little to good to be true. The book also gets a tad bit repetitive. I understand that there needs to be a set up for all the children to get on the train, but it is a little hard to follow all of the characters and remember who is who. The ending is very sweet and makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside, but it is pretty unrealistic. I overall really enjoyed this book, and thought it was a fun read.

This is definitely the best of The Orphan Trains Trilogy and probably the only one series I even like written by the Lacy's. The little lisping orphan is so sweet and my heart really went out to him.
There are too many characters...and people's way of talking is very unrealistic...and the phrase "They all shared a laugh" really got on my nerves. But, I think people may still manage to enjoy it :)

It was really good as well as a being kinda sad. The saddest parts were when Mary, Johnny, and Lizzy’s parents died and when Johnny’s friend is captured.

DNF - the dialogue in this book was so fake I couldn’t even make it to chapter 3

I am a fan of Christian fiction and stories about the Orphan Train and was excited to find this at a library book sale, the excitement didn't last long. I made it to page 37 before giving up. I won't say the writing is bad, since the authors seem to have written a lot of books so someone likes it, it just isn't my style. The dialogue is so unnatural, and they repeat the same thing over and over and over and over and over.

I really wanted to like this book. Religion overpowered the story line and historical aspect. The repetitiveness/retelling of many phrases was off-putting.

I absolutely loved this book! Great Christian read!

one of several favorite authors

It's times like these when Goodreads needs some negative stars...

Ohhhh, why does Christan fiction have to be sooo BAD?!? I'm telling you, I'm a Christian, and there's no way I'm ever going to pick up this badly written, boring crap again. It's riddled with inaccuracies about the time period and daily life, the dialogue is totally and ridiculously fakey sounding, and the history this novel is based on is totally slanted. It's like the characters are living in some alternate universe where everything is bright and shiny and squeaky clean all the time, and bad things only happen so that novelists have something to make money on AND an excuse to show how good and pious they would have been if they had only lived back then. Well I think it's crap and I'm sure glad I didn't buy this book and that I can return it to the library as fast as possible.

The story starts out in New York in 1874 and tells the stories of several children that had become orphans and are being transported by "The Orphan Train" out West to be adopted by families. The Orphan Train was started in 1854 by Dr. Charles Loring Brace after hearing of more than 30,000 children (orphans or run-aways) living on the streets of New York. For the next 75 years, until the last train in 1929, more than 250,000 children were placed in homes in every western state and territory except Arizona.

This was an interesting subject and good storyline.......however, it did get too preachy at times. I don't mind mention of religion and God in any book I am reading, but it was sometimes a bit overwhelming.

The orphan train started by Charles ran from NY where there were thousands of orphans on the street dying and starving. The train took children out west stopping in many western cities for adoption. Lovely story with happy endings