On the Blue Comet
Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2010.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 329 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
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 -- Juvenile fiction.
Railroad trains -- Juvenile fiction.
Single-parent families -- Juvenile fiction.
Depressions -- 1929 -- United States -- Juvenile fiction.
Adventure stories -- Juvenile fiction.
California -- History -- 1850-1950 -- Juvenile fiction.
Illinois -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
Space and time -- Juvenile fiction.
Railroad trains -- Juvenile fiction.
Single-parent families -- Juvenile fiction.
Depressions -- 1929 -- United States -- Juvenile fiction.
Adventure stories -- Juvenile fiction.
California -- History -- 1850-1950 -- Juvenile fiction.
Illinois -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
Target Audience: 009-013.
ISBN:
9780763637224 (hc)