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Author
Series
Silver Arrow volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
Kate's humdrum life is transformed when her eccentric Uncle Herbert brings her a colossal locomotive train, the Silver Arrow, as her eleventh birthday gift, leading her and her younger brother on a mysterious quest.
Author
Series
The Brixton Brothers volume 3
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventh-grader Steve Brixton finds himself pulled back into sleuthing when, during a train trip down the California coast, he uncovers a mystery involving a fleet of priceless automobiles, an assassin, and a private rail car.
Author
Series
All the wrong questions volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Train travel! Murder! Librarians! A Series Finale! On all other nights, the train departs from Stain'd Station and travels to the city without stopping. But not tonight. You might ask, why is this night different from all other nights? But that's the wrong question. Instead ask, where is this all heading? And what happens at the end of the line? The final book in Lemony Snicket's...series, All The Wrong Questions.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Marty goes in search of the mythical Train of Lost Things, hoping that by finding his heart's possession he can save his father from cancer, but he discovers that, without a driver and conductor, the train is malfunctioning and only Marty and his new friends can fix it.
Author
Series
Train to impossible places volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Impossible Postal Express is no ordinary train. It's a troll-operated delivery service that runs everywhere from ocean-bottom shipwrecks, to Trollville, to space. But when this impossible train comes roaring through Suzy's living room, her world turns upside down. After sneaking on board, Suzy suddenly finds herself Deputy Post Master aboard the train, and faced with her first delivery-to the evil Lady Crepuscula. Then, the package itself begs...
Author
Series
Boxcar children great adventures volume 4
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Following clues provided by the secretive Reddimus Society, the four Alden siblings travel to a dingo sanctuary in Australia and to Shakleton's hut in Antarctica to deliver the fifth and sixth artifacts, and then they work to unmask the traitor traveling with them.
Author
Series
Boxcar children great adventures volume 3
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The Alden siblings continue their mission to return lost artifacts around the world by visiting the Great Wall of China and an elephant reserve in Thailand, among other sites, but halfway around the world trouble seems closer than ever.
Author
Series
Train to impossible places volume 2
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Suzy Smith and her friends have gathered again for the re-launch of The Impossible Postal Express. The celebrations don't last long though, before Trollville is rocked by a violent tremor-one of a series growing more powerful by the day. It's clear something sinister is underfoot. Nevertheless Suzy's got a long overdue package that the Express must deliver, and it may just lead her to some answers. --from Amazon.
Author
Series
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Going undercover on the Kratzenstein family's funeral train to find out if these German railway tycoons are possibly cursed, twelve-year-old Hal Beck and his Uncle Nat find themselves faced with a paranormal puzzle--and murder.
Author
Series
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Harrison Beck is reluctantly joining his travel-writer Uncle Nat for the last journey of the royal train, The Highland Falcon. But as the train makes its way to Scotland, a priceless brooch goes missing, and things suddenly get a lot more interesting. As suspicions and accusations run high among the passengers, Harrison begins to investigate and uncovers a few surprises along the way. Can he solve the mystery of the jewel thief and catch the culprit...
14) 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
Boxcar children volume 51
Publisher
Whitman
Pub. Date
©1996.
Language
English
Description
Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny are on a train from Boston to San Francisco. Even though they used to live in a boxcar, this is the first time they've ridden a real, moving train. And they find a mystery to solve even before they leave the station. Is someone trying to steal a young woman's portfolio? Could it be the porter? Or is it the tall, bearded man who always wears sunglasses -- even at night? What's in the portfolio, anyway? Can the Boxcar...
Author
Series
Train to impossible places volume 3
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When the Impossible Postal Express is charged with returning an overdue library book, Suzy Smith looks forward to a nice, simple delivery--just the thing she needs to convince her anxious parents to let her keep her job on the train. So shes less than thrilled to discover that not only is the book alive, it's full of a growing and dangerous magic. Worse still, the world to which it belongs is missing, and Suzy and her friends will have to use all...
Author
Series
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Following his adventure on the California Comet, artist and amateur sleuth Hal Beck is looking forward to another railway journey with Nat, his journalist uncle―this time riding the historic Safari Star through South Africa. Then the already eventful journey becomes even more so when one of their fellow passengers dies on board! Accident . . . or murder? With help from a new friend, Winston (and his mongoose, Chipo), Hal is determined to figure...
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