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.
year: 2010, 2012
call number/section: 1000
subjects: space and time, juvenile fiction, railroad trains, single-parent families, depressions, 1929, fiction, california, history, 1850-1950, juvenile fiction, illinois, 20th century, fiction, adventure fiction, great depression, 1929-1939, railroads
Editions
Wells, Rosemary
Candlewick Press (2010)
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.
Schools: 16
Wells, Rosemary
Candlewick Press (2012)
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.
Schools: 3