Download or read book The Midnight Train Home written by Erika Tamar and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2002-08-13 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.