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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Embarking on a train trip to visit his grandmother, Pete the Cat accompanies the conductor on a tour of the train, looks at the engine, and blows the whistle while making new friends and playing train-themed games.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Just in time for the centennial celebration of groundbreaking noir fiction writer Patricia Highsmith comes a reissue of her propulsive, engrossing debut, Strangers on a Train, with a new introduction by best-selling author Paula Hawkins. Guy Haines and Charles Anthony Bruno are passengers on the same train. Haines is a successful architect in the midst of a divorce, Bruno a mysterious smooth-talker with a sadistic proposal: he'll murder Haines's...
Author
Publisher
BBC Books
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
Tying in with a BBC2 series, this book comprises accounts of six international train adventures undertaken by well-known personalities. By using rail as his or her means of transport, each author was able to meet the people of a continent and witness changing cultures on the journey.
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This comprehensive guide will assist the traveler in planning an excursion and executing it with minimum effort and maximum pleasure" -Library Journal All Aboard-first published in 1995, and here completely revised and updated-is much more than just a mile-by-mile scenery guide for train travelers. It will make any trip smoother and more enjoyable with its insightful travel trips and information about how railroads operate. With trains attracting...
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
From the early steam trains to the high-speed bullet trains of today, 'The Iron Road' tells the hidden stories of railway history - the inspired engineering, blood, sweat and tears that went into the construction of the railways. Uncover the compelling tales of bold vision, invention and error, and social change behind the history of trains and railways, with famous railways such as the Transsiberian fully explored.
8) Train travel
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This book takes a look at trains and train travel in the following places: India, Europe, Peru, Russia, Australia, South Africa, United States, Canada, Japan, and China.
Author
Publisher
Wide Eyed Editions
Pub. Date
20180405
Language
English
Description
Kids can explore how the railroad shaped the history of the United States and Canada, see 15 beloved cities, and discover some of its most iconic locomotives in this stylishly designed book by Canadian author/illustrator Blanchet.
Author
Publisher
Red Comet Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Hop on board the train on a rollicking, rhyming adventure to meet some of Alaska's most beloved animals. Included at the back is a glossary of the parts of a train, plus more information about the famous Alaska Train and a map of its route.
Author
Publisher
Hogarth, an imprint of Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A young man journeys into Sri Lanka's formerly war-torn north, and into a country's soul, in this searing novel of love and the legacy of war from the award-winning author of The Story of a Brief Marriage. "The closest we seem to get to the present are those brief moments we stop to consider the spaces our bodies are occupying, the warmth of the sheets in which we wake, the scratched surface of the window on a train taking us somewhere else..." A...
14) Line 135
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A young girl on a train enroute to her grandmother's house in the country, reflects on traveling through the world and life.
Author
Publisher
Publications International, Ltd
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Travel the globe with more than seventy of the world's most beautiful, historic, and useful train routes with Trains. Go to the foot of the Alps with trains like the Mont Blanc tramway, the Montenvers Railway, or the Jungfrau Railway, as they ascend steep mountainsides to some of the world's most extreme climates. Or follow old mining railways that leave town heading toward the nearest quarry life the Ffestiniog Railway and the Mount Snowdon Railway...
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Traces the impact of rail travel on society with an epic ride aboard the iron horse with changeovers to the Twentieth Century Limited and Japan's bullet train. En route, archival footage of trains and spectacular scenery from around the world capture the romance and enterprise of the railroad.
18) Train I ride
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Traveling from California to Chicago after her mother dies of a drug overdose and her grandmother of lung cancer, thirteen-year-old Rydr meets other passengers on the train and attempts to accept her own situation.
Author
Series
Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
1866. On a train bound for Portsmouth, an elegant woman shares a first-class compartment with a gentleman in a celebratory mood. Giles Blanchard reveals his lecherous side as the journey gets underway, but he will never reach his home on the Isle of Wight alive. This chance encounter is to prove fortuitous for the woman and her partner-in-crime. They find themselves not only the richer for picking the dead man's pocket, they also now possess the material...