Summary: 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. 336 p., Candlewick.
Filed under: Not Mock Newbery Tagged: | 2010, December Short List, fantasy
Excellent read. It’s kind of hard to explain, but the plot is twisted and strange and I liked it
….. I really don’t like this book. In the beginning they kept dragging it on. I would not prefer this to anyone.
This is not a NewBery read and I think that 9 and up is the age limit to this book.