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Grossman, Lev. THE SILVER ARROW New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2020 IL 5-8 ISBN 9780316539531 |
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All Kate knows about her mysterious Uncle Herbert is what she’s heard from her parents--that he’s “very rich and totally irresponsible.” But then her uncle shows up on the morning of her eleventh birthday with a present for Kate—an enormous full-size steam train. So begins a magical adventure that finds Kate and her younger brother, Tom, in charge of the train and traveling through changing landscapes from arctic forests to tropical jungles, stopping at stations to pick up passengers. But not just any passengers. Animals. Talking animals with tickets in their mouths. Bored and craving adventure, Kate gets more than she bargained for in this journey filled with runaway trains, tracks leading to places no train should be able to go, and wild boars and other invasive species trying to muscle aboard. The important environmental message is wrapped up in nonstop thrills and adventure as Kate learns to think for herself and take responsibility. (New Hampshire Great Stone Face Book Award nominee, 2022) |
| SUBJECTS: Brothers and sisters -- Juvenile fiction. Railroad trains -- Juvenile fiction. Animals -- Juvenile fiction. Magic -- Juvenile fiction. Uncles -- Juvenile fiction. Locomotives -- Juvenile fiction. |
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