TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wells,Rosemary
AU  - Ibatoulline,Bagram
TI  - On the Blue Comet
SN  - 076363722X
AV  - PZ7.W46843 Om 2010
U1  - [Fic] 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Somerville, Mass.
PB  - Candlewick Press
KW  - Space and time
KW  - Fiction
KW  - sears
KW  - Railroads
KW  - Single-parent families
KW  - Great Depression, 1929-1939
KW  - Adventure fiction
KW  - California
KW  - History
KW  - Illinois
KW  - gsafd
N1  - School Library Journal, September 2010; Publisher's Weekly, September 2010; Booklist, July 2010; Kirkus Starred, August 2010; New York Times, December 2010; Horn Book, September 2010; Bulletin (Center for Children's books), November 2010; Library Media Connection, November 2010; 5-8; Follett Library Resources
N2  - 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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