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Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline

A community service position helping an elderly woman clean out her home is the only thing keeping Molly Ayer out of juvie and worse. As she helps Vivian sort through her possessions and memories, Molly learns that they aren’t as different as they seem to be. A young Irish immigrant orphaned in New York City, Vivian was put on a train to the Midwest with hundreds of other children. Molly discovers that she has the power to help Vivian find answers to mysteries that have haunted her for her entire life --- answers that will ultimately free them both.

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Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline

While we have hundreds of reading guides available, and we're adding more all the time, it occasionally happens that no guide is available for the book your group has chosen to read. It can be intimidating when it's your turn to lead the discussion and you've no idea where to begin. In order to aid your discussion and enjoyment of your group's choices, the following lists of questions can be used for those books that have no reading guide.

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Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline

This is the time of year when everyone is posting “Best Books of the Year” lists. We would like you and your book group to help us compile ours. Below please share both your favorite book that you read with your group this year and your favorite book that you read outside your group. (They can be the same book! And they don't have to have been published in 2015.)
 
Please be careful with the spelling of book titles and authors’ first and last names to save us editing time!

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