All My Tomorrows Book 2 Author:Al & Joanna Lacy The Orphan Trains Trilogy Immigrants Flood into New York City by the thousands. The squalid streets home to thirty thousand destitute vagrant children. Moved with compassion for their plight seminarian Charles Loring Brace founds the Childrens Aid Society in 1853 and for the next seven decades transports trainloads of orphans to farms and ranche... more »s on th eamerican frontier thrust into a vast unknown territory. What will become of them? New York City 1876. Ten year old Teddy Hansen chokes down a tearful farewell to his hardworking mother when she succumbs to pneumonia and must leave him the mercy of god the the 32nd Street Orphanage. When police officer Justin Smith is killed by bank robbers, his grieving son, Johanny, is taken there, too. As overcrowded conditions at the home threaten to compel them to the streets, the two boys, along with abandoned twins Donna and Deena Mitchell, board an orphan train soon leaving for all points west.« less