Hellie Jondoe

By Randall Beth Platt

Subjects: Orphan trains, Oregon, fiction, Orphans, fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Orphans, History

Description: In 1918, as the Great War ends and the Spanish influenza pandemic begins, thirteen-year-old Hellie Jondoe survives on the streets of New York as a beggar and pickpocket until she boards the orphan train to Oregon, where she learns about loyalty, honesty, and the meaning of family.