When their mother can no longer care for them, eleven-year-old Deirdre and her brothers board the Orphans' Train for placement with families out West, but Deirdre, a talented singer, finds a different type of family when she joins a traveling vaudeville troupe. Includes a note on the Children's Aid Society which operated the orphan trains from 1854 to 1930.
- ISBN10 0440416701
- ISBN13 9780440416708
- Publish Date 13 August 2002 (first published 13 June 2000)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 19 May 2017
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Random House USA Inc
- Imprint Random House USA Children's Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 208
- Language English