English language
Published May 29, 2012 by Candlewick Press.
On the Blue Comet
Rosemary Wells, Bagram Ibatoulline: On the Blue Comet (2012, Candlewick Press)
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- 978-0-7636-5815-1
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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
- Children's fiction
- Space and time, fiction
- Illinois, fiction
- Adventure and adventurers, fiction
- California, fiction
- Single-parent families, fiction
- Railroads, fiction