Looking for home [eBook - NC Kids Digital Library] : The Orphans' Journey Series, Book 1

Meet eight-year-old Ethan Cooper. His parents are gone and he knows it{u2019}s up to him to keep his younger siblings together. But can he really trust that God will protect them? Looking for Home is the first book in an exciting historical series for any kid who loves Little House on the Prairie! With his mother dead, his father gone, and his older brothers and sisters unable to help, eight-year-old Ethan Cooper knows it{u2019}s his responsibility to keep him and his younger siblings together{u2014}even if that means going to an orphanage. Ethan, Alice, Simon, and Will settle into the Briarlane Christian Children{u2019}s Home, where there{u2019}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{u2019}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 "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"--Page [4] of cover In 1907, while starting a new life in a Christian orphanage, eight-year-old Ethan and his three younger siblings hear about the prospect of being sent west on an Orphan Train and pray to stay together.