On the Blue Comet

Type

Book

Authors

Wells, Rosemary

ISBN 13

9780763637224

Tags

adventure, Bank Robberies, boys, depressions, Eleven-year-old boys, single-parent families, Space and time, Time Travel, Trains

Abstract

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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