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Stop The Train:
Geraldine McCaughrean

Stop The Train:

Oxford University Press (Jan 2001)
9780192719010
| Hardcover
238 pages | 135 x 231 mm
Dewey 823.914
LC Classification PZ7.M1286 .St 2001
LC Control No. 2002277788

Genre

  • Children&apos
  • Historical Fiction
  • S Stories

Subject

  • Frontier And Pioneer Life
  • Frontier And Pioneer Life - Oklahoma
  • Girls
  • Oklahoma
  • Oklahoma - History - Land Rush, 1893

Plot

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

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