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"All aboard, but beware! Passengers who sleep on this train may never wake up. In the early hours of Christmas Eve, the sleeper train from London to the Highlands derails, along with the festive plans of its travelers. With the train buried in snow in the middle of nowhere, the passengers have only each other, and not all of them will reach their holiday celebrations. As a killer tries to pick passengers off one by one, former Met Detective Roz Parker...
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Heart of Cheyenne volume 2
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Melody Doyle has spent years following her father across the country as the trans-continental railroad is built. When she announces her desire to settle down in Cheyenne, her father presents her with an unconventional challange: he will allow her to stay if she finds a husband before his departure. Charles Decker, heir to a banking dynasty, has been sent west by his father to manage the family's new bank. When his friendship with Melody blossoms,...
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Last wagon train volume 1
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"A new railroad line is coming to Hansen's Bend--and the Old West will never be the same. Especially for the Callahans. They've been running the local wagon train outfit for years. But now a pompous rail boss named Arbuckle wants to put them out of business. This big-city weasel mocks the Callahans' "slow-poke" wagons--and bets he can finish laying track all the way to the end of the line before Callahan's wagon train even makes it over the mountains....
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publisher
Pub. Date
[2024]
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"This 5-in-1 The Berenstain Bears: Five "Away We Go" Adventures! is full of bear family antics and is the perfect starter for a young reader on the go! This Level 1 I Can Read five-book collection includes these stories: The Berenstain Bears: All Aboard!, The Berenstain Bears' Class Trip, The Berenstain Bears at the Aquarium, The Berenstain Bears: Gone Fishin'!, The Berenstain Bears Around the World. The five books in this collection are Level One...
12) Gold mountain
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Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab
Pub. Date
[2022]
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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.-- Provided by Publisher.
13) A new friend
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Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Buddy the Tyrannosauraus Rex makes a new friend.
14) Night train
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Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2002
Description
Rhyming text presents a nighttime train ride through the countryside, with lightning on the tracks, rattling cars, and the welcoming lights of the station at the end of the journey.
15) The journal of Sean Sullivan: a Transcontinental Railroad worker : Nebraska and points west, 1867
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Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
In 1867, fifteen-year-old Sean experiences both hardships and rewards when he joins his father in working on the building of the Transcontinental Rairoad.
16) Mailing May
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Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Description
In 1914, because her family cannot afford a train ticket to her grandmother's town, May gets mailed and rides the mail car on the train to see her grandmother.
17) Trainstop
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Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2008
Description
In this wordless picture book, a young girl takes a train and makes a stop at a most unusual place where she has an important task to perform.
18) Tracks
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Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Description
When Albert breaks his glasses while supervising the laying of the railroad tracks between two towns, he becomes responsible for one of the most exciting rides that the townspeople have ever had.
19) Iron horses
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Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
1999
Description
Illustrations and simple rhyming text depict the race to construct railroads across the country during the second half of the nineteenth century.
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