English language
Published May 29, 2010 by Candlewick Press.
On the Blue Comet
by Jean Little
5 stars
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When the Depression hits in Cairo, Illinois, and Oscar Ogilvie's father must sell their home and vast model train set-up to look for work in California, eleven-year-old Oscar is left with his dour aunt, where he befriends a mysterious drifter, witnesses a stunning bank robbery, and is suddenly catapulted onto a train that takes him to a different time and place.
Subjects
- Space and time -- Fiction
- Railroad trains -- Fiction
- Single-parent families -- Fiction
- Depressions -- 1929 -- Fiction
- Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction
- California -- History -- 1850-1950 -- Fiction
- Illinois -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction