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21) Trains!
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Introduces the history of trains, from the nineteenth-century steam locomotives that bridged the American East and West to the Japanese "pusher" commuter trains and the Scottish train used as the Hogwarts Express in the "Harry Potter" films.
22) The spy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
Description
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Description
"Tom Langdon, a weary and cash-strapped journalist, is banned from flying when a particularly thorough airport security search causes him to lose his cool. Now, he must take the train if he has any chance of arriving in Los Angeles in time for Christmas with his girlfriend. To finance the trip, he sells a story about a train ride taken during the Christmas season."
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton (Graphic novels) volume 13
Pub. Date
2013, c2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
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.
Author
Series
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.
29) Pamela Camel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A tired and dejected circus camel finds long-sought-after recognition along a railroad track.
30) Trains
Author
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Simple text and supportive full-color photographs introduce young readers to trains. Intended for kindergarten through third grade"--Provided by publisher.
31) The little train
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Engineer Small takes the little train on its run from Tinytown to the big city, passing farms, traveling over a bridge, and going though a tunnel along the way.
33) Breakneck
Author
Series
Arliss Cutter novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2023.
Formats
Description
"In Washington, DC, Supreme Court Justice Charlotte Morehouse prepares for a trip to Alaska, unaware that a killer is waiting to take his revenge--by livestreaming her death to the world. In Anchorage, Alaska, Deputy US Marshals Arliss Cutter and Lola Teariki are assigned to security detail at a judicial conference in Fairbanks. Lola is tasked with guarding Justice Townsend's teenaged daughter while Cutter provides counter-surveillance. It's a simple,...
Author
Series
Ernest Cunningham volume 2
Description
"When the Australian Mystery Writers' Society invited me to their crime-writing festival aboard the Ghan, the famous train between Darwin and Adelaide, I was hoping for some inspiration for my second book. Fiction, this time: I needed a break from real people killing each other. Obviously, that didn't pan out. The program is a who's who of crime writing royalty: the debut writer (me!), the forensic science writer, the blockbuster writer, the legal...
36) 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.
Author
Series
Cat Who mysteries volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
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.
38) Trains
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"This photo-illustrated book for early readers describes the many types of train cars pulled by a freight train and what they are built to carry"--
39) The Boundless
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Aboard "The Boundless," the greatest train ever built, on its maiden voyage across Canada, teenaged Will enlists the aid of a traveling circus to save the train from villains.
40) Smokey
Author
Pub. Date
1962
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Smokey, an old train, has been given up for scrap metal. He is so sad that he blows smoke rings in the shapes of letters. A teacher sees his letters and buys him for use in her classroom.