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Author
Language
English
Description
Hoping to make a clean break from a fractured marriage, Agatha Christie boards the Orient Express in disguise. But unlike her famous detective Hercule Poirot, she can't neatly unravel the mysteries she encounters on this fateful journey. Agatha isn't the only passenger on board with secrets. Her cabinmate Katharine Keeling's first marriage ended in tragedy, propelling her toward a second relationship mired in deceit. Nancy Nelson--newly married but...
Author
Series
Myrtle Hardcastle mystery volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When someone commits robbery and murder aboard the luxurious train on which Myrtle Hardcastle, her Aunt Helena, her governess Miss Judson, and cat Peony are traveling, Myrtle is determined to find the culprit.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A ten-year-old cartographer secretly leaves his family's ranch in Montana where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother and travels across the country aboard a freight train to receive an award at the Smithsonian Institute.
Publisher
Hallmark Channel
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Disillusioned journalist Tom Langdon must get from Washington, D.C., to L.A. in time for Christmas. Forced to travel by train, he begins a journey of rude awakenings, thrilling adventures, and holiday magic. He has no idea that the locomotives pulling him across America will actually take him into the rugged terrain of his own heart, as he rediscovers people's essential goodness and someone very special he believed he had lost.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
330L
Language
English
Description
The Bears are on a steam train trip across Bear country. Mama and Papa enjoy the scenery but the cubs want to learn about the train. With luck, Grizzly Jones might let them blow the train whistle.
Author
Publisher
McFarland & Company
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"This annotated bibliography lists and discusses works from the 1840s to the 21st century. It provides entries on 956 fiction works. An introduction discusses the history of railroad fiction and common themes such as strikes, innovations, hoboes and rail heroes. An appendix organizes entries by decade of publication, and the work is indexed by subject and title"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Cousins Patrick and Beth work with Allan Pinkerton and Kate Warne, the first female detective, to protect Abraham Lincoln from an assassination plot as he travels by train to Washington, D.C., for his inauguration.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"With gorgeous prose, European glamour, and an expansive wanderlust, Christine Mangan's The Continental Affair is a daring cat-and-mouse game that is as surprising as it is satisfying. Meet Louise and Henri. Two strangers, traveling alone, on the train from Belgrade to Istanbul. Except this isn't the first time they have met. Louise is running-from her past, from the shady people she has stolen money from, and from Henri, the person sent to collect...
Series
I can read book volume level 1
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Join Fiona the hippo as she and her animal friends take a train ride at the zoo! Fiona wants to visit the new baby red panda, but it is so far! What better way to get around the zoo than the fun and fast zoo train"--
Author
Series
Holmes on the Range mystery volume 2
Language
English
Description
Hired to guard the Pacific Express during a trip to San Francisco, crime-solving cowboy sleuths Gustav "Old Red" Amlingmeyer and his brother, "Big Red, " deal with a scheming gang of outlaws and a killer hiding among the train's passengers.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A revelatory, entertaining account of the world's most indispensable mode of transportation Tom Zoellner loves trains with a ferocious passion. In his new book he chronicles the innovation and sociological impact of the railway technology that changed the world, and could very well change it again. From the frigid trans-Siberian railroad to the antiquated Indian Railways to the futuristic MagLev trains, Zoellner offers a stirring story of man's relationship...
39) Secret signs
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2006.
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
40) The train home
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Nari's home feels a bit too full and a little too loud for Nari. Sometimes she wishes she lived somewhere else. Maybe a garden, or on a boat, or under the sea, or back in time, or even up in the sky with the stars. When the train rumbles by her window, she wants to jump on board. Where could it take her? The possibilities stretch far and wide as Nari's dreams.
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