Publisher description: In mid-nineteenth-century New York, vagrant youth, both orphans and runaways, filled the streets. For years the city had been sweeping these children into prisons or almshouses, but in 1853 the young minister Charles Loring Brace proposed a radical solution to the problem by creating the Children's Aid Society, an organization that fought to provide homeless children with shelter, education, and, for many, a new family in the...

Presents a history of the orphan trains movement, discussing how it began, factors that influenced its successes and failures, and the reasons why it ended.

Choose your own ending book. Everything in this book happened to real people. And YOU CHOOSE what you do next. The choices you make could lead you to survival or to death.