On the Blue Comet (Paperback)

from KimJD

Eleven-year-old Oscar Ogilvie lives in Cairo, Illinois with his father. The two share a love of model trains, and spend evenings working on their elaborate set up in the basement. The stock market crash of 1929 does not affect them immediately, but ultimately it causes his father to lose his job,...

from ToReadToNap

What a fun ride! This story of a young boy during the depression and the model train set he shares with his father has magic, history, and adventure. Throughout the novel the main character, an 11 year old boy meets historical characters that are (cleverly) not quickly identified. While children ...

from ElizaJane

Reason for Reading: I've read a few of the author's books and this time it was the historical fiction aspects along with the time travel that drew me to this book. Plus I do also have a thing for old trains. Oscar Ogilvie lives in the early 1930's. It is Christmas Eve, 1931 to be exact when the a...

from MikeDI

Well done, highly recommended.

from Turrean

I thought this a VERY irritating book. It started so well, with a finely crafted portrait of a bereaved father and son, withdrawing into a private world after a devastating loss. Then...SPOILERS!! The story veers into fantasy. The boy, Oscar, goes from being a self-sufficient boy who takes it upo...