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On the Blue Comet / Rosemary Wells ; illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2010.Edition: 1st edDescription: 329 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 076363722X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • [Fic] 22
LOC classification:
  • PZ7.W46843 Om 2010
Summary: 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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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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