Abbott, Edith. Immigration Select Documents and Case Records. New York: Ayers Company, 1969

Beard, Lois Roper. The History of Laclede County. Tulsa, OK: The Heritage Publishing Co., 1979.

Brace, Emma, ed. The Life of Charles Loring Brace. New York: Ayers Company, 1976.

Brace, Charles Loring. The Dangerous Classes of New York and Twenty Years work Among Them. Montclair, NJ: reprint, Patterson
     Smith, 1967.

Brophy, A. Blake. Foundlings On The Frontier. University of Arizona, 1972.

Carlisle, Robert, ed. Account of Bellevue Hospital. New York: reprint, Society of Alumni of Bellevue Hospital, 1986.

Fifty Years of Charity. Golden Jubilee Booklet. Fry. Orphan Trains. (96 pages).

Hansen, Marcas Lee. The Atlantic Migration 1607-1860: A History of the Continuing Settlement of the United States. New York:
     Harper & Row, 1962.

Holland. Journey Home. (Paperback fiction for grades 6 and up).

Holloran, Peter C. Boston’s Wayward Children: Social Services for Homeless Children, 1830-1930. Cranbury, NJ: Farleigh
     Dickinson University Press, 1989.

Holt, Marilyn Irvin. The Orphan Trains: Placing Out in America. Lincoln, NE University of Nebraska Press, 1992.

Homes of the Homeless Children. 1903, pg. 239.

Jacoby, Rev. G.P. Catholic Child Care in the Nineteenth Century.

Kadushin, Alfred. Child Welfare Services. New York: The MacMillan Company.

Kerr, Rita. Texas Orphans. 1995 (Historical Fiction).

Kittson, Ruthena Hill. Orphan Voyage. 1965.

Kozol, Jonathan. Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America. New York: Crown Publishers, 1988.

Langsam, Mirian Z. Children West: A History of the Placing-Out System of the New York Children’s Aid Society 1890-1953. Madison:  
     State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1964.

Liebl, Janet. Ties That Bind: The Orphan Train Story in Minnesota. 1994.

Magnuson, James and Dorothea Petrie. Orphan Train: A Novel. New York: Dover, 1978.

Marks & Young. Tears on Paper.

Nixon, Joan Lowery. Orphan Train Quintet. (Fiction)
1.        A Family Apart
2.        Caught in the Act
3.        In the Face of Danger
4.        A Place to Belong
5.        A Dangerous Promise

Orphan Train Heritage Society of American, Inc. Orphan Train Riders: Their Own Stories. Volumes 1-4.  Baltimore, MD: Gateway
     Press, Inc., 1992.

O’Grady. Catholic Charities.

Patrick, Michael, Evelyn Sheets, and Evelyn Trickel. We Are A Part of History: The Story of the Orphan Trains. Virginia Beach, VA: the
     Donning Co. Pub, 1990.

Peart, Jane.  Orphan Train Quartet. (fiction)
1.        Dreams of a Longing Heart
2.        Quest for Lasting Love
3.        Homeward the Seeking Heart
4.        The Heart’s Lonely Secret

Pickett, Robert S. House of Refuge. (Juvenile Reform 1815-1857).

Riis, Jacob A. How the Other Half Lives. 1880, pgs. 134-158.

Riis, Jacob A. Children of the Tenements. 1904, pgs. 53-62.

Starrs, Eliza Ellen. Reminiscences of Sister Irene. (Co-Founder of the New York Foundling Hospital). Thurston. Dependent Child.

Vogt, Martha Nelson, and Christina Vogt. Searching for Home: Three Families From Orphan Trains. Grand Rapids, MI Triumph
     Press, 1979.

VonHartz, John. New York Street Kids. New York: Dover, 1978.

Warren, Andrea. All Aboard The Orphan Trains. Ticknor & Fields, 1995. (For children in grades 5-10).

Warren, Andrea. Orphan Train Rider: One Boy’s True Story. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1998.
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