Lower School Book Club

Join us for our next Lower School Book Club for adults led by Ann Botel-Barnard, our Language Arts Specialist. We are excited to come together to share a love for a great story!

Book: The Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline

Location: Lower School Library

Date: Monday, February 23, 2015 from 8:00-9:00am.

Enjoy a light breakfast and great conversation as we discuss what we loved about the book, what we had questions about and what we could connect to. Feel free to join us even if you have not read the entire book. You will still have a lot to contribute and the discussion will enhance your reading of the book. You are welcome to bring adult friends and relatives that are also interested in discussing this book.

RSVP: Ann Botel-Barnard  abotelbarnard@abingtonfriends.net

This powerful novel portrays a forgotten part of American history through the unlikely friendship of a rebellious young woman searching for family and a woman in her nineties. As their stories unfold, the experience of hundreds of children who rode the Orphan Trains during the time period from 1854-1929 is revealed.  Children traveled from the East Coast cities to join Midwest farm families as either a treasured member of that family or as a child forced into hard labor and servitude. Christina Baker Kline is the One Book, One Philadelphia featured author.