We Rode the Orphan Trains
- ISBN-10
- 0618432353
- ISBN-13
- 9780618432356
- Category
- Juvenile Nonfiction
- Pages
- 148
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Author
- Andrea Warren
Description
Describes the journey many orphan children took looking for families and homes to call their own.
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