Title: On the Blue Comet
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.
Subjects: Fiction, History, Depressions, Adventure and adventurers, Single-parent families, Space and time, Railroad trains, Child and youth fiction, Children's fiction, Space and time, fiction, Railroads, fiction, Single-parent families, fiction, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Illinois, fiction
Places: California, Illinois
Time periods: 1929, 20th century, 1850-1950