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1) The Wrecker
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 20
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In The Chase, Clive Cussler introduced an electrifying new hero, the tall, lean, no-nonsense detective Isaac Bell, who, driven by his sense of justice, travels early-twentieth-century America pursuing thieves and killers . . . and sometimes criminals much worse. It is 1907, a year of financial panic and labor unrest. Train wrecks, fires, and explosions sabotage the Southern Pacific Railroad's Cascades express line and, desperate, the railroad hires...
3) The spy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
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It is 1908, and the international tensions are mounting as the world plunges toward war. When a brilliant American battleship gun designer dies in an apparent suicide, the man's grief-stricken daughter turns to the Van Dorn Detective Agency to clear her father's name. Van Dorn puts his chief investigator on the case, and Isaac Bell soon realizes that the clues point to murder. When more suspicious deaths follow, it becomes clear that someone is orchestrating...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Description
In 1923, when New Orleans native and orphan Bobby Lee Claremont boards a train to Chicago, where he hopes to join the criminal element and make a new life for himself, far away from the heavy-handed salvation of the Sisters of Charitable Mercy, he acquaints himself with a group of intriguing and possibly dangerous passengers who cause Bobby Lee to reconsider his plans.
6) All aboard!
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Mr. Barnes goes on a train trip and enjoys all the sights and sounds of the ride.
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Holland family saga volume 4
Pub. Date
2021.
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The American West in the early 1960s appears to be a pastoral paradise: golden wheat fields, mist-filled canyons, frolicking animals. Aspiring novelist Aaron Holland Broussard has observed it from the open door of a boxcar, riding the rails for both inspiration and odd jobs. Jumping off in Denver, he finds work on a farm and meets Joanne McDuffy, an articulate and fierce college student and gifted painter. Their soul connection is immediate, but their...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Celebrate the 90th anniversary of The Little Engine That Could with this all-time classic reillustrated by Caldecott Award-winning artist Dan Santat!
The kindness and determination of the Little Blue Engine have inspired millions of children around the world since the story was first published in 1930. Cherished by readers for ninety years, The Little Engine That Could is a classic tale of a little engine that, despite her size, triumphantly pulls...
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Isaac Bell thrillers volume 3
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
Description
Investigating a ruling that a pre-World War I battleship gun designer committed suicide, chief investigator Isaac Bell discovers that a spy with ties to a top-secret project has been staging the killings of America's leading technological minds.
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Geronimo Stilton (Graphic novels) volume 13
Pub. Date
2013, c2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
Traveling to the American west to stop the Pirate Cats' evil scheme, Geronimo Stilton makes sure that the work on the Transcontinental Railroad is completed.
14) Shark vs. train
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A shark and a train compete in a series of contests on a seesaw, in hot air balloons, bowling, shooting baskets, playing hide-and-seek, and more.
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Goodnight Train volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"A child's bedtime ritual follows the imaginary journey of the Goodnight Train's trip to the dreamland station."--Publishef.
17) All aboard!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Describes the travels of a cargo train as it passes through Lego City, from loading its cargo onto the cars, driving over bridges and into tunnels, and pulling into Lego City station.
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Cat Who mysteries volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
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Description
The affluent owner of a historic steam locomotive and private railcar disappears with millions of dollars belonging to Moose county investors. Journalist-detective Jim Quill probes the embezzlement with the aid of his Siamese sleuths, Koko and Yum Yum. The case is complicated by a train wreck and a murder in a railroad tavern. By the author of The Cat Who Could Read Backwards, the book which launched the 17-volume series in 1966.
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Goodnight Train volume 3
Description
Illustrations and easy-to-read, rhyming text welcome riders onto the Goodnight Train as it follows Santa's sleigh on Christmas Eve.