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3) Iron horses
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill., map ; 22 x 27 cm.
Description
Illustrations and simple rhyming text depict the race to construct railroads across the country during the second half of the nineteenth century.
Author
Series
Gourmet Detective mysteries volume 8
Description
On a voyage from another era, the detective encounters a thoroughly modern murder The Danube Express was once the most famous train on the continent. Linking east and west, it was the fastest route from the Alps to the Black Sea, until airplanes and automobiles made it obsolete. When a group of savvy investors revived it in the 1970s, it became an Express only in name. A five-star hotel on wheels, it is now a luxurious iconand it's celebrating its...
10) Gold mountain
Author
Description
Fifteen-year-old Tam Ling Fan disguises herself as her twin brother, journeys from her village in China to California, and works as a laborer on the Transcontinental Railroad--where she faces danger on multiple fronts--to earn the money her family desperately needs. Includes author's note.
11) Casey Jones
Author
Publisher
Frances Foster Books
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
[29] p. : col. ill. ; 22 x 28 cm.
Description
Illustrations and rhythmic text tell how the famous engineer, Casey Jones, risks his own life to save others.
Author
Series
California Zephyr mysteries volume 1
Publisher
John Daniel & Company
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
226 pages ; 22 cm
14) The Boundless
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
332 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Aboard "The Boundless," the greatest train ever built, on its maiden voyage across Canada, teenaged Will enlists the aid of a traveling circus to save the train from villains.
15) Train I ride
Author
Description
Traveling from California to Chicago after her mother dies of a drug overdose and her grandmother of lung cancer, thirteen-year-old Rydr meets other passengers on the train and attempts to accept her own situation.
16) Family secrets
Author
Series
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Three friends purchase a historic hotel in Marietta, Ohio, and learn it was a stop on the Underground Railroad. When strange things begin happening at the inn, an old journal written by former slave and Underground Railroad "conductor", Prudence Willard, may offer shed light on the present-day mysteries at the inn.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
465 pages ; 22 cm
Description
After losing his college scholarship, Arthur discovers a journal written by his deceased grandfather and decides to follow the train route to the destination mentioned in the last sentence of the journal.
Author
Series
Ranger in time volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
131, [23] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
This time the mysterious box that Ranger the Golden retriever found transports him to a Maryland plantation before the Civil War, where he must help a young house slave named Sarah and her younger brother Jesse find their way to the underground railroad and North to freedom, before Jesse is sold to a plantation further South.
Author
Series
Elm Creek Quilts volume 7
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
306 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
In Creek's Crossing, Pennsylvania, in the years before the Civil War, Dorothea Granger agrees to sew an unusual quilt to fulfill her uncle's deathbed request, realizing later that the quilt pattern contains an Underground Railroad map.
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