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Searching for You
by Jody Hedlund
Book 3 in the Orphan Train series.
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Despite years on the run, Sophie Neumann is determined to care for two young children. She won't abandon them the way she thinks her older sisters abandoned her. But times are growing desperate, and when she falls in with the wrong crowd and witnesses a crime, she realizes fleeing 1850s New York is her only option. Disappearing with her two young charges into a group of orphans heading west by train, Sophie hopes to find safety and a happy life. When the train stops in Illinois for the first placement of orphans, Sophie faces the most difficult choice of her life. Reinhold Weiss has finally purchased his own small farm. With mounting debts, a harvest to bring in, and past scars that haunt him, he's in no position to give his heart away . . .
Sophie’s flight from gang violence places an older adolescent among younger children being sent to rural homes. The novel gives particular attention to the vulnerability of placements that were poorly inspected, using faith, literacy and chosen family to ask what genuine rescue requires after the train has moved on.
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