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Wells, Rosemary.

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

When the Depression hits in Cairo, Illinois, and Oscar Ogilvie's father must sell their home and vast model train set-up to look for work in California, eleven-year-old Oscar is left with his dour aunt, where he befriends a mysterious drifter, witnesses a stunning bank robbery, and is suddenly catapulted onto a train that takes him to a different time and place.

009-013.

ISBN: 9780763637224 (hc) 076363722X (hc)

LCCN: 2009051358

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Space and time--Juvenile fiction.
Railroad trains--Juvenile fiction.
Single-parent families--Juvenile fiction.
Depressions--United States--1929--Juvenile fiction.
Adventure and adventurers--Juvenile fiction.
Space and time--Fiction.
Railroad trains--Fiction.
Single-parent families--Fiction.
Depressions--1929--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
California--History--1850-1950--Juvenile fiction.
Illinois--History--20th century--Juvenile fiction.
California--History--1850-1950--Fiction.
Illinois--History--20th century--Fiction.

LC Class. No.: PZ7.W46843 / Om 2010

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]