Beverly Stowe McClure A Family for Leona

Ten-year-old Leona Chapter doesn't understand why her papa left his sixchildren at the Brooklyn Home for Homeless Children after their mother'sdeath in 1921. Each day she prays he'll return and take his children home.God, however, isn't listening. Her brothers and sisters are either adoptedor run away, leaving only Leona and Baby Mildred in the orphanage. Leonapromises she and Mildred will be together for always. A promise she cannotkeep, for Leona, along with her friend Noah, who she defends from the bulliesHiram and Jehu, and several other orphans, are soon on a train headed toTexas, while her sister stays at the orphanage. Leona vows she'll go back toBrooklyn, the first chance she gets.An Orphan Tran tale of the early 1900s