On+the+Blue+Comet

It’s the Great Depression in 1931 and Oscar is now living with his Aunt Carmen. He sells his home, trains, and his Dad’s company closed down. Toy trains were his life with his dad. Mr. Applegate found Oscar helped him with his math homework and introduced the poem If by Robert Kipling to him. Mr. Applegate was a bank night guard. When Oscar was looking at trains in the bank two robbers came in and Mr. Applegate shouted, “Jump!” to terrified Oscar who jumped on the set of trains and ended up at Dearborn Station where he traveled to California and hit a time pocket and he was then an eleven year old boy in a twenty- one year old man’s body. He gets scared and jumps onto the Crawford layout when soldiers want to take him into WWII in 1941. He meets a girl named Claire on that train who lives in New York in 1926 near Wall Street, where the Great Depression starts. He was six when he got off this time and Claire gives him money so that when he is eleven again he will have money. Claire warns Mr. Applegate so he doesn’t die. Oscar’s life returned to normal. I loved this book. Although I don’t like trains I liked the factor Oscar could travel into the future or past through them. This book made me keep reading because of the suspense of murder, time traveling, money shortages, and the scared feelings that Oscar has. It made me realize times were really hard during the duration of the Great Depression. More than I imagined anyway. Overall, I thought this book was truly amazing and that you should read it too. Isabella H /bellster587 Number of Raffle Tickets: (image = 1) (summary = 1) (Did I Like It? = 1) (number of pages - 356 = 4) (listened to it on audio from NH Downloadable Books = ) (I included my name and username = 1) TOTAL TICKETS - 8
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