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Language
English
Description
From traditional steam trains to super-fast bullet trains, this fact-filled information book allows children to look inside locomotives and find out how they work. Young readers can lift-the-flaps to discover fun facts and find out about the history of train travel.
62) Loco Motive
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
On a cross-country train trip to Boston, Judith McMonigle Flynn is disgusted by the antics of daredevil and fellow passenger Wee Willie Weevil, whose untimely death following the train's collision with a truck identifies the work of a murderer.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
20180102
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A whirlwind twenty-four-hour romance about two teens who meet-and perhaps change their minds about love-on a train ride in the middle of a snowstorm. Leah Konen's Love and Other Train Wrecks is perfect for fans of Emery Lord and Jennifer E. Smith.
Noah is a hopeless romantic. He's traveling home for one last chance with his first love, and he needs a miracle to win her back. Ammy doesn't believe in true love-just look at her parents. If there's...
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A signalman is found dead by a railway tunnel. A man identifies his wife as a victim of murder on the underground. Two passengers mysteriously disappear between stations, leaving behind a dead body. Trains have been a favourite setting of many crime writers, providing the mobile equivalent of the 'locked-room' scenario. Their enclosed carriages with a limited number of suspects lend themselves to seemingly impossible crimes. In an era of cancellations...
Publisher
Lonely Planet
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Discover 60 of the world's greatest and most memorable train journeys, from classic long-distance trips, such as Canada's Rocky Mountaineer and Darwin to Adelaide's The Ghan, to little-known gems on regular commuting lines. Each profile features a detailed description of the whole experience, with practical information such as ticket recommendations, key stops and the best time to travel. Inspiring photographs and an illustrated route map bring every...
67) Rattle and rap
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and simple text depict travels by train, through a tunnel, and across a level crossing to the sea while taking passengers to their stations.
68) Ladies coupé
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Meet Akhila: forty-five and single, an income-tax clerk, and a woman who has never been allowed to live her own life - always the daughter, the sister, the aunt, the provider - until the day she gets herself a one-way ticket to the seaside town of Kanyakumari. In the intimate atmosphere of the all-women sleeping car - the 'Ladies Coupe' - Akhila asks the five women the question that has been haunting her all her adult life: can a woman stay single...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
After witnessing something shocking, Rachel offers what she knows to the police, and becomes inextricably entwined in what happens next, as well as in the lives of everyone involved. Has she done more harm than good?
Author
Series
Colorado rail annual volume no. 18
Publisher
Colorado Railroad Museum
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
74) The winter train
Author
Publisher
Cuento de Luz SL
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
As the cold weather approaches, the forest animals prepare to board the train that will take them to a warmer place for the winter, but then someone realizes that Squirrel is missing.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Combines an account of Robert Louis Stevenson's experiences as he traveled from New York to California by train in 1879 and a description of the building and operation of railroads in nineteenth-century America. An account of Robert Louis Stevenson's twelve day journey from New York to California in 1879, interwoven with a history of the building of the transcontinental railroad and the settling of the West.
Series
Travel the world by train volume 5
Publisher
Pioneer Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
See the world through the windows of a passenger train. Visit several countries in Asia, including, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, China, Kazakstan, and Russia.
79) The Harvey girls
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Susan meets a cheery group of young women traveling out to open a 'Harvey House' restaurant at a remote whistle stop to provide good cooking and wholesome company for railway travelers.
Author
Publisher
Viking Adult
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...
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