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Author
Series
Silver Arrow volume 1
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.
3) Trains
Author
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tells how trains work, gives a history of trains, and looks at the future for trains and train travel.
Author
Series
Silver Arrow volume 2
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
The Brixton Brothers volume 3
Language
English
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
Train to impossible places volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Suzy Smith joins the troll-operated Impossible Postal Express, but she botches her first delivery by stealing a cursed snow globe. It contains a boy who claims there is a plot to take control of the Union of Impossible Places.
Author
Series
Train to impossible places volume 3
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
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
All the wrong questions volume 4
Language
English
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
Series
Train to impossible places volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Suzy Smith and the crew of the Impossible Postal Express must race through the Uncanny Valley and the Cloud Forge to save the Union--and Trollville--from a new threat.
12) Ultimate trains
Author
Series
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
40 pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the history of locomotives and the current development of high-speed trains, focusing on magnetic levitation, or Maglev, trains, with suggested experiments which demonstrate the scientific principles behind the trains.
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Thea Stilton volume 13
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
157 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Thea Sisters are boarding the famouse Orient Express for a journey from Paris to Istanbul! The train is on a special trip to return a precious wedding dress stolen years ago from an Istanbul museum. But there's a rumor that the mysterious Acrobat Thief will steal the gown from the moving train! The Thea Sisters are determined to foil this sneaky mouse's plans" -- p. [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
191 pages ; 22 cm
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
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
277 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1937, ten-year-old Henry Shipley must rely on a talking cat named Lantern Sam and a kindly conductor named Clarence to help solve the kidnapping of a young heiress aboard the Lake Erie Shoreliner passenger train.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
229 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1923, when New Orleans native and orphan Bobby Lee Claremont boards a train to Chicago, where he hopes to join the criminal element and make a new life for himself, far away from the heavy-handed salvation of the Sisters of Charitable Mercy, he acquaints himself with a group of intriguing and possibly dangerous passengers who cause Bobby Lee to reconsider his plans.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
30 unnumbered pages : illustrations, map ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes how John Bull, a steam locomotive, was built in England, brought to the United States in 1831, assembled, put to work, and modified over time, leading the way for modern rail transportation.
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