Books like Orphan train

Orphan train by Christina Baker Kline reads as poignant, hopeful. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Before We Were Yours

Lisa Wingate · 2016

Both explore adoption & trauma

84% genome match

Out of the Easy

Ruta Sepetys · 2013

Shares the comingofage thread

69% genome match

Good-bye Marianne

Irene N. Watts · 1995

Shares the comingofage thread

78% genome match

The Way I Used To Be

Amber Smith · 2016

Shares the comingofage thread

69% genome match

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster boy

Gary D. Schmidt · 1999

Shares the comingofage thread

70% genome match

The Four Winds

Kristin Hannah · 2021

Both explore resilience

54% genome match

Lost in the Barrens - Collector's Edition

Farley Mowat · 1956

Shares the comingofage thread

69% genome match

The Fourth Closet

Scott Cawthon · 2021

Shares the comingofage thread

69% genome match

The story of Tracy Beaker

Jacqueline Wilson · 1991

Shares the comingofage thread

69% genome match

Walk Two Moons

Sharon Creech · 1994

Shares the comingofage thread

69% genome match

Heart of a samurai

Margi Preus · 2010

Shares the comingofage thread

69% genome match

Fallen angels

Walter Dean Myers · 1984

Shares the comingofage thread

69% genome match