With his mother dead, his father gone, and his older brothers and sisters unable to help, eight-year-old Ethan Cooper knows it s his responsibility to keep him and his younger siblings together even if that means going to an orphanage.
Ethan, Alice, Simon, and Will settle into the Briarlane Christian Children s Home, where there s plenty to eat, plenty of work, and plenty of talk about a Father who never leaves. Even so, Ethan fears losing the only family he has. How can he trust God to keep him safe when almost everything he s known has disappeared?
The first book in the Beyond the Orphan Train series, "Looking for Home" takes us back to 1907 Pennsylvania and into the real-life adventures of four children in search of a true home."