On the Blue Comet
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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.
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PUBLISHED
Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2010.
Year Published: 2010
Description: 329 p.
Language: English
Format: Book
READING LEVEL
Lexile: 730
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780763637224
076363722X
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Ibatoulline, Bagram,
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.