Stop the Train - Hardcover

McCaughrean, Geraldine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0192719017 ISBN 13: 9780192719010

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2001

Synopsis

It s 1893 and for Cissy and her family, a new life beckons on the prairies of Oklahoma. Along with other settlers, they travel to Florence - a town yet to be built - and prepare for business alongside the Red Rock Railroad track. But the railroad company has other ideas. It wants to buy the
land for itself - and when the settlers refuse to sell, the railroad boss swears his train will never stop in Florence again. Without the train there us no way the town can survive. So Cissy, her friends, family and neighbours resolve to stop that train, come what may - by fair means or foul...

* Wonderful, exciting adventure story full of daring deeds and period detail

About this title

About the Author:

Geraldine McCaughrean is the Printz Award-winning author of The White Darkness. She has been honored with England's most prestigious children's book award, the Carnegie Medal, and is the only three-time winner ever of the Whitbread Children's Book Award. She also wrote Peter Pan in Scarlet, the first official sequel to the treasured masterpiece Peter Pan, and the critically acclaimed The Death-Defying Pepper Roux. Geraldine lives in Berkshire, England, with her husband and actress daughter.

From AudioFile:

Ellen Myrick's narration is spot-on in this rollicking story of pioneer times. The Full Cast Family delivers all the emotions of families struggling to build a new life in a new land. They arrive in Florence to stake claims at the start of the 1889 Oklahoma Land Rush, discovering that it is up to them to create the community that currently is just a dream in the dust. Hardships arise when the train bypasses Florence because the settlers won't sell their claims to the railroad. Hilarity ensues as various plans are hatched to force the train to stop. Hope wins out when success comes in a satisfying ending in which all sides win. N.E.M. © AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0192719017
• ISBN 13: 9780192719010
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 238