Helpful Score: 3
I LIKED THIS BOOK A LOT, IT WAS AS GOOD AS THE FIRST ONE. CAN'T WAIT TO START THE 3RD IN THIS TRILOGY.
A decent book-though a bit unrealistic in places about how people interact with each other and how situations work out.
Helpful Score: 2
New York City, 1876. Ten year old Teddy Hansen chokes down a tearful farewell to his hardworking mother when she succumbs to pneumonia and must leave him to the mercy of God and the 32nd Street Orphanage. When police officer Justin Smith is killed by bank robbers, his grieving son, Johnny, is taken there, too. As overcrowded conditions at the home threaten to compel them to the streets, the two boys, along with abandoned twins Donna and Deena Mitchell, board an orphan train soon leaving for all points west.
Helpful Score: 1
I enjoyed this second book of the series better than the first one. It's hard to imagiine what htese children went through going on this train but it was so much better that what they left.
Helpful Score: 1
The story content was interesting, but I found this book a little boring. The dialog sounded the same between grownups and children. It was all "perfectly, and politely spoken. All children do not talk alike, nor do all grownups. It was difficult to get into and follow the storyline because they all talked alike. Also, there were no surprises. I knew everything that happened would happened before it did.
