Description
The book "Orphan Trains: An Interactive History Adventure You Choose: History" explores the practice of sending homeless city children west on trains in the early 1900s. The children faced uncertain futures, with the possibility of finding loving families or being forced into labor. Readers are given the choice to follow the story of a child who heads west, searches for a home for their siblings, or tries to care for themselves and their younger sister.
In the early 1900s, adults hoped to find parents for homeless city children by sending them west on trains. Most of these children had no idea whether they would find kind adoptive families or be forced to work like slaves. Will you: Head west after living on the streets of New York City? Search for a home for you and your three younger siblings? Try to care for yourself and your baby sister on your own?