{"product_id":"mail-order-kid-marilyn-june-coffey-9780962631726","title":"Mail-Order Kid: An Orphan Train Rider's Story","description":"The massive orphan train exodus whisked three-year-old Teresa from the safety of her New York orphanage, where the worst thing the Foundling nuns did was wash her curly black hair, to a desolate house and cold-hearted \"parents\" in Kansas. There she entered a small and strange Volga German world whose inhabitants spoke a language she had never heard. In this odd world, she encountered whippings and sexual abuse. Perhaps half a million children, like Teresa, were plucked from orphanages and shipped by rail (or \"relocated\") to nearly every state in the Union from 1854 to 1929. Mail-Order Kid looks at the orphan train movement through the eyes of one small child who yearns to know her \"real\" mother, survives a tortured childhood, and ultimately, as an adult, comes to terms with her past, her faith, and herself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marilyn June Coffey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0962631728\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780962631726\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Out West Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/06\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.67d","brand":"Marilyn June Coffey","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43986762858751,"sku":"9780962631726","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7cf018cb-0e86-4976-9dfb-db7a41758f72.jpg?v=1683285048","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mail-order-kid-marilyn-june-coffey-9780962631726","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}