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![]() ![]() Somehow the unlikely duo become close friends. Molly is sentenced to spend 50 hours of community service for stealing and is sentenced helping Vivian clean out her attic. ![]() Her father died in a car accident and her mother was taken to jail. She has been passed around in the modern day foster system since she was a young girl. Molly is a girl on a crash course with disaster. Many years later Niamh’s name is changed and changed again. Neamh is left to the Child’s Aid Society and eventually placed on an Orphan Train to be transported to the Midwest in search of a new family. “Orphan Train” by Christina Baker Kline, follows Niamh (pronounced Neev) who lived with her family in New York until her father and brothers are killed in a fire and her mother is sent to a mental hospital. ![]() The “Orphan Train” Movement started in 1853 and continued into the early 1900’s. Brace theorized that he children would have a better chance at becoming contributing members of society if they were raised by “God fearing” farm families. Charles Brace, saw a need for the children to have homes of their own. In the 1850’s it was estimated that over 30,000 children were homeless, and roaming the busy streets of New York City. Read on your PC, Mac, smart phone, tablet or Kindle device Today only, get this summary of the 1# Amazon bestseller for just $2.99. Learn About "Orphan Train" In A Fraction Of The Time It Takes To Read The Actual Book!!! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Part of the novel’s power derives from Strout’s ability to set Amy and Isabel’s painful struggles within the larger context of a small town. Amy, at 16, has a poised, delicate beauty, and finds herself-at first with alarm, then with a barely suppressed excitement-responding to the flirtations of a new teacher. Now, Amy’s innocence is under assault from various quarters, and her mother finds herself losing touch with the daughter who has been the focus of her existence. Amy has grown up knowing little about her father and, thanks to her closeness to Isabel, also knowing little about the rough give-and-take of life. Isabel Goodrow had settled in the mill town of Shirley Falls when her daughter Amy was an infant, reluctantly admitting to those who asked that both her husband and her parents were dead. ![]() A lyrical, closely observant first novel, charting the complex, resilient relationship of a mother and daughter. ![]() ![]() ![]() After the war prompted by the Luxen invasion, there now remains a shaky peace between them and the humans. ![]() ![]() Although there are cliches and some awkward dialogue, the book is still an exceptional start to Armentrout’s new spin-off series.ĭasher lives in a new world - one infested with Luxen trying to assimilate into the human culture. The book is a fun read, filled with drama and plot twists. Its new protagonist is Evelyn Dasher, who now faces a world in the midst of repairing itself after the invasion. “The Darkest Star”’s plot is set four years after the events of “Opposition” and follows an alien invasion. Armentrout has picked up the narrative again with “The Darkest Star.” The Lux series follows Katy Swartz after she encounters a mysterious neighbor who belongs to an alien race: the Luxen. Four years after the release of the final novel in the alien-based Lux series “Opposition,” Jennifer L. ![]() |