On the Blue Comet

by Rosemary Wells

Book Overview

Trains and time travel spur one boy's thrilling adventure as he seeks to rejoin his father in a new classic from Rosemary Wells and Bagram Ibatoulline.

One day in a house at the end of Lucifer Street, on the Mississippi River side of Cairo, Illinois, eleven-year-old Oscar Ogilvie's life is changed forever. The Crash of 1929 has rippled across the country, and Oscar's dad must sell their home -- with all their cherished model trains --...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 076363722X
• ISBN13: 9780763637224
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
• Length: 329 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 10 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 5 and higher