A FAMILY APART

Nineteenth-century "orphan trains" often separated poverty-stricken East Coast parents from their beloved children, in hopes of giving them a better life in the Great American West. A FAMILY APART carries the listener back to the mean streets of New York, circa 1860. Narrator Barbara Caurso brings 13-year-old Mary Frances Kelly to life is this heartwarming--and sometimes heartbreaking--story. M.C. © AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine [Published: APR/MAY 01]