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Author
Series
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Following clues provided by the secretive Reddimus Society, the four Alden siblings travel to a dingo sanctuary in Australia and to Shakleton's hut in Antarctica to deliver the fifth and sixth artifacts, and then they work to unmask the traitor traveling with them.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Although not thrilled when her summer plans are upended for a surprise cross-country train trip with her family and embarrassed because one of her moms is writing a tell-all book about the trip, twelve-year-old Sara Johnston-Fischer finds herself changing along with the landscape outside the train windows.
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
"In April 1945, the funeral train carrying the body of Franklin D. Roosevelt embarked on a three-day, thousand-mile odyssey through nine states before reaching the president's home where he was buried. It passed with darkened windows; few gave thought to what might be happening aboard. A closer look inside the train, however, would reveal a Soviet spy about to leak a state secret, a newly widowed Eleanor Roosevelt, who just found out that her husband's...
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Harrison Beck is reluctantly joining his travel-writer Uncle Nat for the last journey of the royal train, The Highland Falcon. But as the train makes its way to Scotland, a priceless brooch goes missing, and things suddenly get a lot more interesting. As suspicions and accusations run high among the passengers, Harrison begins to investigate and uncovers a few surprises along the way. Can he solve the mystery of the jewel thief and catch the culprit...
170) A train journey
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In this pop-up history of rail travel, train lovers will lose themselves in lively, highly detailed illustrations showcasing great trains in history--from the first steam engine to the futuristic bullet train.
171) The excursion train
Author
Series
Robert Colbeck mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
"As a bustling crowd clambers aboard the Great Western Railway excursion train, taking them to an illegal prize-fight in Berkshire, the train guard fears for the safety of his rolling stock. Little does he expect, however, the brutal murder of one of his passengers, Jake Bransby. On the shocking discovery of the body, Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck and his assistant, Sergeant Victor Leeming, are sent to the scene." "Faced with what initially appears...