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Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2017].
Language
English
Description
In 1923, when New Orleans native and orphan Bobby Lee Claremont boards a train to Chicago, where he hopes to join the criminal element and make a new life for himself, far away from the heavy-handed salvation of the Sisters of Charitable Mercy, he acquaints himself with a group of intriguing and possibly dangerous passengers who cause Bobby Lee to reconsider his plans.
243) Time to share!
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Thomas learns about sharing with his friend Percy"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Publisher
Blok, B de Blok
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Español
Description
El tren de los sue�nos llega a la estaci�on. Hay que cargar las mercancias: los osos polares meten los helados en el vag�on frigor�ifico, los elefantes llenan los tanques de pintura, las tortugas colocan los coches de carreras en el vag�on portaautom�oviles, los canguros se ocupan de que las pelotas vayan en sus contenedores. �Los entusiastas de los trenes tienen asegurados los mas dulces e imaginativos sue�nos!
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246) Gunfight at Laramie
Author
Language
English
Description
After being framed for a bad accident, Dev Devereaux had been falsely blacklisted as a train wrecker. But he'd set himself a mission to find the person who did it and choke the truth out of him. Now, jaws clamped together, he was riding as a passenger in the engineer's cab of The Limited. They were hurtling through the Wyoming wilderness far beyond Omaha when the engineer noticed a problem with the tracks ahead. Suddenly, Dev heard the engineer yell...
249) Sleep train
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A little boy climbs into bed with a book and starts counting the train cars in it, between the engine and caboose. 'Ten sleepy cars going clickety-clack,' reads the refrain. But as the boy counts cars and gets sleepier and sleepier, his room looks more and more like one of the train cars from his book--the sleeping car, of course!"--Amazon.com.
251) Bridie's daughter
Author
Series
Orphan train trilogy volume 2nd story
Publisher
iUniverse
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
From 1854 to 1929, more than 200,000 homeless children left New York City on orphan trains to find new lives across the country. Some found loving homes; others experienced physical and mental abuse. Bridie's Daughter brings that world to life in this second novel in Robert Noonan's Orphan Train Trilogy. It is an eye-opening tale that follows four teen-aged children who are filled with hope, concern and uncertainty, as they ride the rails to an unknown...
252) Tiny's new flowers
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Tiny and Buddy takes a trip on the Dinosaur Train to look for pretty flowers.
Series
Train to impossible places volume 2
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Suzy Smith and her friends have gathered again for the relaunch of The Impossible Postal Express. The celebrations don't last long though, before Trollville is rocked by a violent earthquake - the first in the city's history. It's clear something sinister is underfoot. Nevertheless, Suzy's got a very late package that the Impossible Postal Service must deliver - 'come rain, shine, or meteor shower!' And the package might just lead her to some answers....
257) One big open sky
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In the 1870s, a Black family undertakes a perilous wagon journey westward for a tenuous shot at freedom in Nebraska"--
258) The Golden Swift
Author
Series
Silver Arrow volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Kate and Tom are now full-fledged conductors of the steam-powered, animal-saving Great Secret Intercontinental Railway, but when Kate takes the Silver Arrow out on an unsanctioned mission to find Uncle Herbert she discovers a mysterious train called the Golden Swift with an agenda of its own.
259) West to the elephant
Author
Publisher
AuthorHouse
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
English
Description
A fourteen-year-old girl tries unsuccessfully to avoid the journey to the gold rush country her family plans to take. During the five-day wagon trip from New York City to Philadelphia, she is irritated by the small size of that wagon that carries her family of six and the endless chatter of her siblings. When a widow joins the caravan, she invites the girl to ride with her. Thus begins a close friendship that involves the widow's story of love, inheritance...