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2) Night train
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Rhyming text presents a nighttime train ride through the countryside, with lightning on the tracks, rattling cars, and the welcoming lights of the station at the end of the journey.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the author of McTeague : The classic novel of corporate corruption and violent rebellion in the railroad industry. On May 11, 1880, at a San Joaquin Valley ranch, a shootout between tenant farmers and a sheriff's posse left seven dead. The dispute was over land rights. The law was acting in the service of the Southern Pacific Railroad. This tragedy marked the beginning of the end for the American frontier, and it became the inspiration for Frank...
5) Shortcut
Author
Pub. Date
[1992]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Children taking a shortcut by walking along a railroad track find excitement and danger when a train approaches.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Stepney, a very old engine, is in charge of taking the museum cars to the Natural History Museum, but when he breaks down, Thomas doesn't want to get stuck carrying the old relics because he thinks the children will make fun of him. Original.
10) Trainstop
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In this wordless picture book, a young girl takes a train and makes a stop at a most unusual place where she has an important task to perform.
11) Mailing May
Author
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
In 1914, because her family cannot afford a train ticket to her grandmother's town, May gets mailed and rides the mail car on the train to see her grandmother.
13) Destined for you
Author
Series
Ladies of the Lake volume 1
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1869, Gloriana Womack's family is much smaller since scarlet fever killed her mother and two of her siblings. She lives in a modest cottage in Duluth, Minnesota, with her father and young brother, and she has dedicated her life to holding her tiny, fractured family together--especially as her father is frequently gone on long fishing trips. Their livelihood may come from the waters of Lake Superior, but storms on the lake can be dangerous, even...
17) Trains
Author
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Brief text and illustrations present a variety of trains and what they do.
19) Iron horses
Author
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and simple rhyming text depict the race to construct railroads across the country during the second half of the nineteenth century.
20) Tracks
Author
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
When Albert breaks his glasses while supervising the laying of the railroad tracks between two towns, he becomes responsible for one of the most exciting rides that the townspeople have ever had.
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