Molly's boyfriend Jack comes up with a plan for filling those hours: Jack's mother, Terry, is the housekeeper for elderly Vivian, who lives in a large and lonely house and whose attic needs cleaning. As punishment, she is sentenced to perform fifty hours of community service. Molly, of Penobscot Indian descent, lives with spiteful Dina and timid Ralph, Dina keeping her around in order to keep receiving the government payments she receives for foster parenting. She was put into the system after her father died in a car accident and her mother turned to drugs. Molly is a troubled foster child in Maine who is about to “age out” of the system (that is, she's becoming too old for the system to continue accommodating). Orphan Train is a young adult / historical fiction novel about the relationship between seventeen year-old Molly Ayer and ninety-one year-old Vivian Daly who, as the result of spending time together and sharing their experiences, form a bond, learn from each other, and change in significant ways.
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