On the Blue Comet
By: Rosemary Wells ; illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline.
Contributors: Ibatoulline, Bagram, ill.
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Somerville, Mass
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780763637224
Subjects: Space and time -- Fiction; Railroad trains -- Fiction; Single-parent families -- Fiction; Depressions -- 1929 -- Fiction; Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction; California -- History -- 1850-1950 -- Fiction; Illinois -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: When the Depression hits in Cairo, Illinois, and Oscar Ogilvie's father must sell their home and vast model train set-up to look for work in California, eleven-year-old Oscar is left with his dour aunt, where he befriends a mysterious drifter, witnesses a stunning bank robbery, and is suddenly catapulted onto a train that takes him to a different time and place.