Title On the Blue Comet / Rosemary Wells ; illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline.

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Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2010.

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Description	1 online resource (164 pages) : color illustrations
Audience	009-013.
Summary	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.
Subject	Space and time -- Juvenile fiction.
	Railroad trains -- Juvenile fiction.
	Single-parent families -- Juvenile fiction.
	Depressions -- 1929 -- United States -- Juvenile fiction.
	California -- History -- 1850-1950 -- Juvenile fiction.
	Illinois -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
	Space and time -- Fiction.
	Railroad trains -- Fiction.
	Single-parent families -- Fiction.
	Depressions -- 1929 -- Fiction.
	Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction.
	California -- History -- 1850-1950 -- Fiction.
	Illinois -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
	Action & Adventure.
	Parents.
	Railroads & Trains.
	Depressions. (OCoLC)fst00890969
	Railroad trains. (OCoLC)fst01431189
	Single-parent families. (OCoLC)fst01119481
	Space and time. (OCoLC)fst01127622
	California. (OCoLC)fst01204928
	Illinois. (OCoLC)fst01205143
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term	1850-1999
Genre/Form	Fantasy fiction.
	Action and adventure fiction.
	Action and adventure fiction. (OCoLC)fst01921574
	Adventure stories. (OCoLC)fst01726519
	Fantasy fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726607
	Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
	Adventure fiction -- Juvenile.
	Fantasy fiction -- Juvenile.
	Adventure fiction.
	Electronic books.
Added Author	Ibatoulline, Bagram, illustrator.
ISBN	9780763654191 (electronic bk.)
	0763654191 (electronic bk.)

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