Wells, Rosemary.

On the Blue Comet / Rosemary Wells ; illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline. - 1st ed. - Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2010. - 329 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.

Sequoyah Nominee 2013

When Oscar Ogilvie's father must look for work in California, Oscar is left with his aunt, where he befriends a drifter, witnesses a bank robbery, and is catapulted onto a train that takes him to a different time and place.

730 Lexile.

9780763637224 (lib. bdg.) : $16.99 076363722X (lib. bdg.) : $16.99

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Space and time--Fiction.
Railroads--Fiction.
Single-parent families--Fiction.
Great Depression, 1929-1939--Fiction.


California--History--Fiction.
Illinois--History--Fiction.


Adventure fiction.

PZ7.W46843 / Om 2010

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