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Article: Bridie's Daughter: The Second Story in the Orphan Train Trilogy.(Book review)
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Bridie's Daughter: The Second Story in the Orphan Train Trilogy
Robert Noonan
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"Bridie's Daughter" is the second of three books in Robert Noonan's "Orphan Train Trilogy." This book begins on June 8th, 1899, in an orphanage in New York City where the children are preparing to ride an orphan train to the Midwest in the hopes that they will be chosen for adoption. Fourteen-year-old Catherine was one of the orphans on this train and she was drawn to, and grew close to, three other orphans ...
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