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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...
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
An inspiring tale from Michael Morpurgo and Michael Foreman celebrating the world's most iconic train, Flying Scotsman, and its greatest fan, a young girl named Iris. Iris knows everything there is to know about Flying Scotsman. Her dad is the famous train's driver, and every year her favourite birthday treat is a trip to see him at work. But each time Flying Scotsman pulls away, Iris wishes more than anything that she could be in the driver's cab,...
Author
Series
Boxcar children great adventures volume 1
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
After finding a statue in an old trunk, the children travel across the country with the statue and six mysterious boxes in an attempt to make sure the treasures all stay where they belong.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Little Train happily ventures out on the railroad track alone for the first time, but when he reaches the end of the tracks, it is getting dark and Little Train is worried until he recalls what his parents said about finding his way home.
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.
12) Zombie train
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
While twelve-year-old Wyatt rides out the zombie apocalypse on his crew's cobbled together train, a mysterious girl arrives with stories of a potential cure for the zombie parasite.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Mr. Complain always has something to grumble about, even as he takes a spectacular train ride through mountains, volcanoes, caves, and oceans, but as his trip comes to an end he realizes he genuinely enjoyed the journey and is ready to go again.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Hamish the bear and Noreen the goose lead a very good life in the country, but when Hamish journeys to the city to explore new places, make new friends and get a job on a building site, he realizes how much he misses his home and his good friend, Noreen.
16) Chaiwala!
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
"When their train makes a ten-minute stop at the station in Jaipur, a young girl and her mother hurry to get in line for a cup of chai. The girl orders two cups, and then delights in watching the chaiwala at work--grinding the spices, adding scoops of tea leaves and sugar to the bubbling, boiling milk, then cooling the chai by pouring it from high, back and forth, back and forth--the girl is mesmerized. With a biscuit and a rusk added to their order,...
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
On the train tour, the Aldens are learning all about the cowboy ways of the Old West. But someone is bringing the lawless ways of a bandit to life too! Can you help the children catch the culprit before the end of the line?
Author
Series
Mr. Penguin volume 4
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Meet Mr. Penguin - adventurer (and penguin). He has a dashing hat. He has a packed lunch. He is very keen. When Mr Penguin discovers that his good friend Edith has been kidnapped, he's on his most important mission yet. Will he survive a perilous train journey through the desert? Can he complete three impossible tasks ... and still get home in time for a fish finger sandwich?
19) Stuck with you
Author
Publisher
James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Stuck With You is a story of Queer joy and a playful teen romance, following two frenemies as they fall for each other while stuck in adjacent seats on a day-long train trip. Ben is on a train back to Ottawa after a visit with his dad in Toronto when he runs into the last person he wanted to see: Caleb, the handsome, confident boy who recently and accidentally broke Ben's phone. Preoccupied by worrying about whether he should take a gap year, Ben...