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Language
English
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"The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Embarking on a train trip to visit his grandmother, Pete the Cat accompanies the conductor on a tour of the train, looks at the engine, and blows the whistle while making new friends and playing train-themed games.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Nobody ever talks to strangers on the train. It's a rule. But what would happen if they did? From the New York Times bestselling author of The Authenticity Project, a heartwarming novel about unexpected friendships and the joy of connecting. Every day Iona, a larger-than-life magazine advice columnist, travels the ten stops from Hampton Court to Waterloo Station by train, accompanied by her dog, Lulu. Every day she sees the same people, whom she...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
281 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Patricia Highsmith's debut novel, we encounter Guy Haines and Charles Anthony Bruno, passengers on the same train. But while Guy is a successful architect in the midst of a divorce, Bruno turns out to be a sadistic psychopath who manipulates Guy into swapping murders with him. As Bruno carries out his twisted plan, Guy is trapped in Highsmith's perilous world-where, under the right circumstances, anybody is capable of murder. The inspiration for...
6) Peaces
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The prize-winning, bestselling author of Gingerbread; Boy, Snow, Bird; and What is Not Yours is Not Yours returns with a vivid and inventive new novel about a couple forever changed by an unusual train voyage. When Otto and Xavier Shin declare their love, an aunt gifts them a trip on a sleeper train to mark their new commitment - and to get them out of her house. Setting off with their pet mongoose, Otto and Xavier arrive at their sleepy local train...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Without a shred of doubt, one of his fellow passengers is the murderer. Isolated by the storm, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer among a dozen of the dead man's enemies, before the murderer decides to strike again....
Author
Series
The boxcar children great adventure volume 1
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
138 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
After finding a statue in an old trunk, the children travel across the country with the statue and six mysterious boxes in an attempt to make sure the treasures all stay where they belong.
Author
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"After surviving a brilliantly plotted murder attempt, the richest man in San Francisco is looking to hire the best protection money can buy. Enter Matt Jensen, who, for the princely sum of $5000, agrees to escort millionaire John Gillespie and his very fetching daughter on a railway journey from Frisco to Chicago. There's just one catch: the world's deadliest killers are coming along for the ride. In Provo, Utah, a knife-wielding assassin leads Jensen...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
Two teens, Hugo and Mae, are strangers until they share a cross-country train trip that teaches them about love, each other, and the futures they can build for themselves.
12) The trap door
Author
Series
Infinity ring volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
190 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Continues the adventures of Dak, Sera, and Riq in mid-nineteenth-century America, where they work to free the Underground Railroad from SQ influences and Riq risks everything to save the life of a young boy.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Hamish the bear and Noreen the goose lead a very good life in the country, but when Hamish journeys to the city to explore new places, make new friends and get a job on a building site, he realizes how much he misses his home and his good friend, Noreen.
14) The summer of us
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Told from two viewpoints, Rae, Aubrey, Clara, Jonah, and Gabe travel through Europe by train for ten days, working through their relationships just before setting off in different directions for college.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mr. Complain always has something to grumble about, even as he takes a spectacular train ride through mountains, volcanoes, caves, and oceans, but as his trip comes to an end he realizes he genuinely enjoyed the journey and is ready to go again.
16) The London train
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Harper Perennial ed.
Physical Desc
324, 16 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
After the death of his mother, Paul abandons his family to live life on the edge with his daughter from a previous marriage who is pregnant and living in a run-down council flat, while Cora rebels against her marriage and society.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
131 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
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
Nancy Drew diaries volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Nancy's Alaskan adventure continues as she, Bess, and George disembark the mystery-plagued Arctic Star cruise ship and explore the grand sites of the forty-ninth state: Skagway; the Yukon territory, and Denali National Park. It's spectacular scenery, but things start to go wrong almost immediately, leading Nancy to believe that whoever was behind the unsolved mayhem aboard the ship has followed them onto dry land. The girl detectives had better watch...
Author
Publisher
Soundprints
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p.: col. ill.; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
While on a visit to the Anacostia Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, Emma finds herself as a runaway slave using the Underground Railroad to make her way to freedom in Canada.
Author
Publisher
Hogarth, an imprint of Random House Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A young man journeys into Sri Lanka's formerly war-torn north, and into a country's soul, in this searing novel of love and the legacy of war from the award-winning author of The Story of a Brief Marriage. "The closest we seem to get to the present are those brief moments we stop to consider the spaces our bodies are occupying, the warmth of the sheets in which we wake, the scratched surface of the window on a train taking us somewhere else..." A...