• Looking for Home

  • Beyond the Orphan Train, Book 1
  • By: Arleta Richardson
  • Narrated by: Susan Hanfield
  • Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (29 ratings)

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Looking for Home

By: Arleta Richardson
Narrated by: Susan Hanfield
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Publisher's summary

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.

©2016 eChristian (P)2016 eChristian

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Good morals

This book reinforces doing what’s right and how kids can choose that even when young. Great story and based on history.

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This was a good story of an eight-year old who travels to an orphanage with his three younger siblings.
The narrator was excellent in that voices were differentiated and I could interact with the main characters.

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Absolutely great!

I loved every bit! The narrator has an excellent voice and expresses the story well. I highly recommend this book! ❤️

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great listen for all ages

great listen for all ages. rating by mom, who enjoyed all 4 books in this series thoroughly. teenage daughter enjoyed thoroughly after mom. I belive this series is written for the 10-12 age group, but is acceptable for all age ranges. good story, good performance, good morals, entertaining. the other 3 books in this series are all good stories, same performance as 1st book, also just as entertaining and the same morals and values. highly recommended series

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Fun story

The story was great it was very exciting! But the narrator was not very good

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Having to listen to over 2 minutes of announcements.

I stopped listening to this and even deleted it from my library 2.20 minutes after it started. The 2 minutes of announcements, some of which were repeated, was ridiculous.

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