Will's Choice (Orphan Train Children) - Hardcover

Sent by his single father--a circus performer--westward in search of a better life, twelve-year-old Will finds a home with a kindly doctor and discovers a talent for helping the sick, until his father's circus arrives in town.

d 12-year-old Will Scott is not happy to be riding the orphan train. That's because Will's not really an orphan. He has a father--Jesse, a circus performer. But Will is no good at circus tricks, and Jesse tells him he'd be better off with a new family out West: "I'm giving you a better life, Will."
Will is placed with the kindly Dr. and Mrs. Wallace. Assisting Dr. Wallace on his rounds of the local farms, Will finds to his surprise that he's really good at something--helping people who are sick and hurt. But he still misses his father terribly. And then one night, Jesse's circus comes to town....