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Trains and time-travel encourage one boy’s fascinating journey as he attempts to rejoin his father in a brand new vintage from Rosemary Wells and Bagram Ibatoulline.One evening in a home at the conclusion of Lucifer Road, to the Mississippi River-Side of Cairo, Illinois, eleven-year-old Oscar Ogilvie’s existence is altered forever. The Crash of 1929 has rippled in the united states, and their home—with must be sold by Oscar’s dad almost all their valued design trains—and head west looking for function. Forced to maneuver in together with his humorless grandmother, Carmen and his teasing relative, Willa Sue, Oscar is lonesome and miserable—until he meets a strange drifter and witnesses a crime so spectacular it catapults Oscar on an amazing train trip from coast-to-coast, from one decade to a different. Loaded with suspense and peppered with amusing activities with Hollywood superstars and other bigwigs of background, this fascinating book by Rosemary Wells, beautifully illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline, resonates with laughter, warmth, and the real wonder of the classic journey.