Stop the Train
By: Geraldine McCaughrean;
Language: English
Quality: Good
Genre: Children books Age 9-12, Comedy & Humor, History,
ISBN: 9780192752666
SKU: BE500257873396
Pages: 238
Description: 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 trains will never stop in Florence again. Without the train, there is 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...