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1) Shortcut
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
Children taking a shortcut by walking along a railroad track find excitement and danger when a train approaches.
2) Trains
Author
Publisher
T.Y. Crowell
Pub. Date
©1986
Language
English
Description
Brief text and illustrations present a variety of trains and what they do.
4) Trainstop
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
When the 1920s' most glamorous lady detective, the Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher, arranges to go to Ballarat for the week, she eschews the excitement of her red Hispano-Suiza racing car for the sedate safety of the train. The last thing she expects is to have to use her trusty Beretta .32 to save lives. As the passengers sleep, they are poisoned with chloroform. Phryne is left to piece together the clues after this restful country sojourn turns into...
8) Can do!
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"It's Mighty Recycling Day in Tracksville, and Flicker's Mega Mission is to pick up all the bottles and cans and recycle them in Building Yard Station. But when his big pile of recyclables turns into a big problem, it's up to Flicker and the Mighty Express to work together and get the job done and delivered. Will Flicker stay on track and deliver the recyling pile?" --
11) Etta Invincible
Author
Publisher
Aladdin, an imprint of Simon & Schuster's Children Publishing Divison
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"Twelve-year-old Etta Johnson has Loud Days where she can hear just fine and Quiet Days where sounds come from far away and she gets to retreat into her thoughts. Etta spends most of her time alone, working on her comic book about Invincible Girl, the superhero who takes down super villain Petra Fide. Invincible Girl is brave, daring, and bold--everything Etta wishes she could be. But when Louisa May Alcott, a friendly Goldendoodle from across the...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
What if the end times allowed people to see and build the world anew? This is the landscape that Kimi Eisele creates in her surprising and original debut novel. Evoking the spirit of such monumental love stories as Cold Mountain and the creative vision of novels like Station Eleven, The Lightest Object in the Universe imagines what happens after the global economy collapses and the electrical grid goes down. In this new world, Carson, on the East...
13) The Golden Swift
Author
Series
Silver Arrow volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Kate and Tom are now full-fledged conductors of the steam-powered, animal-saving Great Secret Intercontinental Railway, but when Kate takes the Silver Arrow out on an unsanctioned mission to find Uncle Herbert she discovers a mysterious train called the Golden Swift with an agenda of its own.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
"Bright and ambitious, young Jim Stringer moves from the English countryside to London deter- mined to become a railway man. It is 1903, the dawn of the Edwardian age, when steam runs the nation and the railways drive progress. Jim can't believe his luck to have gotten his foot in the door at South East Railway, run out of Waterloo Station. He finds, however, that his duties involve a graveyard shift, literally--a railway line that takes coffins from...
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In 1926, droves of Americans traveled by train across the United States to visit the West. They ate at Harvey Houses, where thousands of well-trained waitresses provided first-class service. [This novel] tells the first-person story of one spunky girl, Kitty Evans, as she faces the often funny and painful experiences she and fellow waitresses Cordelia and Emmy endure"--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Del Wensley, wife of the most celebrated preacher in Harlan County, tries to mind her place. Until her husband's infidelity pushes an already strained marriage to a breaking point. Clinging to her last hope for self-respect, Del turns her back on the rigid life she's known. A coal train is rolling through the valley. With her eyes wide open to the unfamiliar, and to the freedom she craves, Del takes to the rails. Rumbling across America, Del is soon...
Author
Series
Jim Stringer mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
19) The great race
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Thomas the tank engine and Bertie the bus agree to race to see who is faster.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 1
Publisher
A. Whitman
Pub. Date
[1977]
Language
English
Description
Four orphans take shelter in an old boxcar during a storm, and, determined to make it their own, they turn it into a safe, cozy home.
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