Books like Orphan Train
If you liked Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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Before We Were Yours
Because shares tags: historical fiction, adoption, family.
Avery uncovers her family's link to stolen orphans while Rill fights to keep her siblings together in 1939.
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The Three Musketeers
Because shares tags: historical fiction, friendship.
Young dArtagnan joins Athos, Porthos and Aramis to recover the queens diamonds and face Milady.
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Because shares tags: historical fiction, friendship.
Footbound Lily and Snow Flower share laotong bond through 19th century Hunan hardship.
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My Brilliant Friend
Because shares tags: friendship, historical fiction.
Elena and Lila grow up in 1950s Naples bound by rivalry and love.
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Homegoing
Because shares tags: historical fiction, family.
Half sisters Effia and Esi lines span Ghana to America across centuries.
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The Light Between Oceans
Because shares tags: historical fiction, family.
Lighthouse keeper Tom Sherbourne and Isabel raise a boat baby on Janus Rock and face her true mother on shore.
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The Giver of Stars
Because shares tags: historical fiction, friendship.
Alice Wright joins Kentucky packhorse librarians with Margery and faces marriage strain and a murder trial.
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Sarah's Key
Because shares tags: historical fiction, family.
In 1942 Paris Sarah locks her brother to save him, then vanishes. Sixty years later journalist Julia traces her, exposing family guilt and…
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Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Because shares tags: family, friendship.
Sidda Walker, a theater director, fights with her mother Vivi after a New York Times interview, then learns Vivi's past through the Ya-Ya…
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Carrie Soto Is Back
Because shares tags: historical fiction, family.
Champion Carrie Soto returns at thirty seven with father Javier to reclaim twenty Slams.
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The Red Tent
Because shares tags: historical fiction, family.
Dinah retells Genesis from the women's tent, loving Jacob's wives and surviving Shechem and Egypt.
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Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Because shares tags: family, friendship.
Two Mexican American boys in 1987 El Paso become inseparable and learn what love asks of family.
