{"product_id":"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.\u003cbr\u003ePerhaps 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. \u003cbr\u003eMail-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.","brand":"\"out West\" Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47095775920368,"sku":"9780962631726","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780962631726_p0.jpg?v=1764107139","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780962631726","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}