The Orphan's Train Series, Vol 1, Looking for Home

With their mother dead and their father gone, there is no way the nine Cooper children can keep their family together. The four young ones must go to an orphanage. Ethan, the oldest, finds that in the children’s home, there is plenty to eat, plenty of work and plenty of talk about a God who cares about every detail of their lives. When he found himself bullied by an older boy, worried about his brother’s disappearance etc. he thinks he could use some extra help … like the care of the ‘Good Shepherd’ the folks at Briarlane seem to know.