Author : Phil Roxbee Cox
Publisher : E.D.C. Publishing
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 20,64 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN :
Staying with their Uncle Jack in what was once Seabry Station, twins Alf and Chrissy find themselves drawn into a series of strange events.
Author : Dr. Cecil H.H. Mills
Publisher : Permuted Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 28,31 MB
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1637581858
Hey kid, do you wanna get rich? I’m talking real rich, real quick. It’s easy, and to do it, all the info you need is contained within this book. Keep reading. Listen, my name is Dr. Cecil H.H. Mills. I’m the author of this book as well as many other better books that you may not have heard of. But this one is fine, I suppose—especially if you want to one day own a yacht. This is a story about three idiot wannabe detectives: J.J. and Valentine Watts and their new friend Trudi de la Rosa. Again, they’re idiots, but in a fun way where they go on adventures and occasionally use swear words. In this book, they’re riding a train on official Ghost Hunters Adventure Club business when an old friend from the past shows up to ruin everything. It’s up to our three young adventurers to solve the mystery of the Express Train to Nowhere before they’re locked away forever for a crime they didn’t even commit. There’s action, there’s humor, there’s suspense, but most importantly there is a detailed set of instructions hidden within these pages that will help both you and me get rich beyond our wildest dreams. Just buy the book and start reading. You’ll learn everything about the Ghost Hunters Adventure Club and my personal get-rich-quick Yacht Plan soon.
Author : Dr. Cecil H.H. Mills
Publisher : Permuted Press
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 24,55 MB
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1682618935
Listen up, kid. My name is Dr. Cecil H.H. Mills. I’m the author of this book and many other ones that you might not have heard of. This book is about two idiot wannabe detective-types. Their names are J.J. and Valentine Watts, but I’m not sure if they’re actually brothers or not. They make a friend; her name is Trudi de la Rosa. She’s a wannabe detective-type too, but honestly, she’s less of an idiot than the brothers. The three of them team up to solve a mystery that takes place in a snowy chateau up in the mountains. It gets more complicated around chapter 11, but now you’ve got the main gist of it. The story’s full of intrigue and adventure and puzzles and light violence and some swear words. It’s really entertaining. Just buy the book and start reading. You’ll understand everything about the Ghost Hunters Adventure Club very soon.
Author : Mur Lafferty
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 12,70 MB
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1405518030
COULD YOU FIND A MUSEUM FOR A MONSTER? OR A JAZZ BAR FOR A JABBERWOCK? Zoe writes travel guides for the undead. And she's good at it too - her new-found ability to talk to cities seems to help. After the success of The Shambling Guide to New York City, Zoe and her team are sent to New Orleans to write the sequel, and to find the best beignet pastry in the city, of course. Her writing isn't all that brings her to New Orleans. The only person who can save Zoe's new boyfriend from zombism is rumoured to live in the city's swamps, but she's out of her element in the wilderness. With colleagues waiting to see her fail, and rumours of something hunting citytalkers, can Zoe stay alive long enough to finish her next book?
Author : Paul Yee
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 45,51 MB
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1554982715
This enhanced e-book, in celebration of Groundwood's 35th anniversary, includes a read-aloud feature of the story narrated by Molly Johnson. Winner of the Governor General's Award, the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award, the Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Award and the Ruth Schwartz Award This powerful, unforgettable and multi-award-winning tale is based on the lives of the Chinese who settled on the west coast of North America in the early 1900s. Left behind in China by her father, who has gone to North America to find work, Choon-yi has made her living by selling her paintings in the market. When her father writes one day and asks her to join him, she joyously sets off, only to discover that he has been killed. Choon-yi sees the railway and the giant train engines that her father died for, and she is filled with an urge to paint them. But her work disappoints her until a ghostly presence beckons her to board the train where she meets the ghosts of the men who died building the railway. She is able to give them peace by returning their bones to China where they were born.
Author : Zander Bingham
Publisher : Green Rhino Media Pty. Limited
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 40,32 MB
Release : 2019-12-17
Category :
ISBN : 9781949247183
How will they stop the train? When Jack Jones, his sister Emma, and best buddy Albert find themselves aboard a runaway train, the three adventurers must work together to stop it--before it's too late! Train to Nowhere is a fun-filled escapade with heart-pounding thrills, clever characters and positive messages. Perfect for anyone who enjoys feel-good tales and lots of laughter...with a bit of mayhem thrown in! No monsters or "bad guys" No weapons or violence Just good, clean fun! Fans of old steam engines and plenty of adventure will enjoy meeting Jack Jones! This series of children's chapter books is the perfect dose of excitement, adventure and good, clean fun! Young readers will enjoy following Jack and crew on this fun-filled adventure, and the young-at-heart will love coming along for the ride! This book is ideal for children new to chapter books (ages 6-8) as well as those who are at an intermediate level of reading chapter books independently (ages 9-12).
Author : P. G. Bell
Publisher : Feiwel & Friends
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 12,44 MB
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1250189519
A middle-grade fantasy and nonstop adventure, The Train to Impossible Places by debut author P. G. Bell is as fun as it is full of heart, and the first book of a trilogy. A train that travels through impossible places. A boy trapped in a snow globe. And a girl who’s about to go on the adventure of a lifetime. The Impossible Postal Express is no ordinary train. It’s a troll-operated delivery service that runs everywhere from ocean-bottom shipwrecks, to Trollville, to space. But when this impossible train comes roaring through Suzy’s living room, her world turns upside down. After sneaking on board, Suzy suddenly finds herself Deputy Post Master aboard the train, and faced with her first delivery—to the evil Lady Crepuscula. Then, the package itself begs Suzy not to deliver him. A talking snow globe, Frederick has information Crepuscula could use to take over the entire Union of Impossible Places. But when protecting Frederick means putting her friends in danger, Suzy has to make a difficult choice—with the fate of the entire Union at stake.
Author : Cynthia C. DeFelice
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 36,47 MB
Release : 2001-05-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0380733064
When her father kills himself after losing his money in the stock market crash of 1929, twelve-year-old Frances, now a penniless orphan decides to hop abroad a freight train and live the life of a hobo.
Author : Hubert L. Mullins
Publisher :
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 17,30 MB
Release : 2021-07-12
Category :
ISBN :
In the winter of 1943, a train from Warsaw bound for the Treblinka death camp went missing. Now, in modern day Poland, the train still haunts the countryside, luring people to leave their homes and step aboard. A group of American travelers with a penchant for ghost hunting decide to look into the disappearances, only to discover a plot that could change the world, and that the Ghost Train's origins reach much further back than the holocaust . . .
Author : Marylin Irvin Holt
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 24,11 MB
Release : 1994-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803235977
"From 1850 to 1930 America witnessed a unique emigration and resettlement of at least 200,000 children and several thousand adults, primarily from the East Coast to the West. This 'placing out,' an attempt to find homes for the urban poor, was best known by the 'orphan trains' that carried the children. Holt carefully analyzes the system, initially instituted by the New York Children's Aid Society in 1853, tracking its imitators as well as the reasons for its creation and demise. She captures the children's perspective with the judicious use of oral histories, institutional records, and newspaper accounts. This well-written volume sheds new light on the multifaceted experience of children's immigration, changing concepts of welfare, and Western expansion. It is good, scholarly social history."—Library Journal
