Orphans' Journey

With his mother dead, his father gone, and his older brothers and sisters unable to help, eight-year-old Ethan Cooper knows it's his responsibility to keep him and his younger siblings together-even if that means going to an orphanage. Ethan, Alice, Simon, and Will settle into the Briarlane Christian Children's Home, where there's plenty to eat, plenty of work, and plenty of talk about a Father who never leaves. Even so, Ethan fears losing the only family he has. How can he trust God to keep him safe when almost everything he's known has disappeared?

Nine-year-old Ethan Cooper has managed to keep his family together for a year in a Pennsylvania orphanage. Now he and his siblings are boarding a train headed west. He can't help but worry: Mr. and Mrs. Rush in Nebraska have agreed to adopt all four Cooper children, but what if they change their minds? In the meantime, Ethan and his siblings encounter their first dust storm, explore train cars, and watch friend after friend leave with new parents. The children dream that soon they will have a new ma and pa too. Based on the story of a real family, this second book in the historical Beyond the Orphan Train series reminds us that God never leaves us, no matter how far we journey to find home. Ethan Cooper and his brothers and sister are finally leaving the orphanage. But will their new parents give them the love they need? The second book in the Beyond the Orphan Train series takes us on the orphan train in 1908 from Pennsylvania to Chicago to Nebraska and into the heart of what family means. A teacher and librarian, Arleta Richardson was a beloved children's author. Her popular Grandma's Attic series, which recounts her grandmother's childhood on a 19th-century farm on the shores of Lake Michigan, has reached more than 2 million people around the world.

Since their mama died and their pa left, Ethan, Alice, Simon, and Will Cooper have not known much of a home. But now that the orphan train has taken them to Mr. and Mrs. Rush in Nebraska, their dreams of home may become a reality. The kids discover that life on a farm is full of challenges. Ethan learns how to drive a plow, watch for snakes, and deal with bullies at the country school. Alice learns to slop the hogs and live with a big sister who isn't exactly welcoming. Will seems to be the only one of the four that their new mother likes. And Simon disappears-again. The third book in the Beyond the Orphan Train series, Prairie Homestead is an adventure in new beginnings and lasting faith. Continue the journey with the Cooper children as they settle into life with a new family on a Nebraska farm. Will the God whom Ethan began to trust in the orphanage take care of them now? The third book in the Beyond the Orphan Train series, Prairie Homestead takes young readers on an adventure of new beginnings and lasting faith. A teacher and librarian, Arleta Richardson was a beloved children's author. Her popular Grandma's Attic series, which recounts her grandmother's childhood on a 19th-century farm on the shores of Lake Michigan, has reached more than 2 million people around the world.

Life on the Rush farm in South Dakota is not easy. Even so, over the past four years, Ethan Cooper and his siblings have grown to feel they belong with their adoptive family. Then Chad Rush makes an unexpected announcement. The family is moving again-this time to Mexico! Ethan is scared. What dangers will they face in another country? What will it be like to live on an oil homestead instead of a farm? And what about his dreams of getting an education? He can't leave his siblings after he's promised they would stay together-can he? Based on a true story, this conclusion to the Beyond the Orphan Train series reminds us that the same God who is with us from the start never lets us go. Based on a true story, the final book in the Beyond the Orphan Train series takes readers into the heart of a turbulent Mexico in the early 1900s and reminds young readers that the God who is with them from the start will never let them go. A teacher and librarian, Arleta Richardson was a beloved children's author. Her popular Grandma's Attic series, which recounts her grandmother's childhood on a 19th-century farm on the shores of Lake Michigan, has reached more than 2 million people around the world.