![]() ![]() ![]() She wanted the book and she was sure Dina wanted a convenient excuse to kick her out. It was obvious, though, that Dina didn’t like her, so Molly started packing after she was caught stealing a ratty library paperback. She’d cycle out of the foster care system soon, and a last-minute move was ridiculous. Seventeen-year-old Molly Ayers hoped that Ralph and Dina’s house would be the last one she’d have to endure. And in the new book “Orphan Train” by Christina Baker Kline (William Morrow, 2013, 278 pages), the time has come to empty them. ![]() You could fill volumes with the memories you hold, but Vivian Daly has packed hers in enough boxes to fill an attic. You’d fasten down puppy breath, running through sprinklers and birthday cake. Your mother’s voice would be saved between pages of perfect-weather days, lost loves and hot cocoa. If you could, you’d paste the sound of your father coming home from work. On this page here, you’d glue that first-day-of-school smell. Your memories could fill a thousand scrapbooks. ![]()
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