Hank's story

By Jane Buchanan

Subjects: Orphan trains, Nebraska, history, Farm life, fiction, Farm life, Orphans, fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Orphans, History

Description: In 1923, twelve-year-old Hank and his older brother Peter travel on the Orphan Train from New York to Nebraska where they find a miserable existence living on a farm with a disagreeable and abusive couple whose only use for the brothers is as unpaid help.