On the Blue Comet, Rosemary Wells
On the Blue Comet, Rosemary Wells
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On the Blue Comet

Author: Rosemary Wells

Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner

Unabridged: 6 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/28/2010

Synopsis

Oscar Ogilvie is living with his dad in a house at the end of Lucifer Street, in Cairo, Illinois, when world events change his life forever. The great stock market crash has rippled across the country, and the bank takes over their home—along with all their cherished model trains. Oscar’s dad is forced to head west in search of work, and Oscar must move in with his no-nonsense Aunt Carmen. Only a mysterious drifter who stops by each day for food after school helps alleviate Oscar’s loneliness—until Oscar witnesses a crime so stunning that it catapults him into a miraculous, time-hopping train journey. Filled with suspense and peppered with witty encounters with Hollywood stars and other bigwigs of history, this captivating novel by Rosemary Wells resonates with imagination, humor, and the magic of a timeless adventure story.

About Rosemary Wells

Rosemary Wells has written or illustrated more than sixty books for children and has received numerous awards. She is the creator of the beloved Max and Ruby stories; the co-author (with Secundino Fernandez) of My Havana: Memories of a Cuban Boyhood, illustrated by Peter Ferguson; the author of Lincoln and His Boys, illustrated by P.J. Lynch; and the illustrator of My Very First Mother Goose, edited by Iona Opie. She lives in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Josiah on July 02, 2011

Was On the Blue Comet influenced a tiny bit, perhaps, by the impressive success achieved by When You Reach Me upon that latter book's acclaimed release in 2009? Or maybe was it the success of that book that led Rosemary Wells to gain faith in a similar idea that had been germinating in her own writ......more

Goodreads review by Margo on September 30, 2010

Fans of time travel books and trains should love acclaimed picture-book author and novelist Rosemary Wells' newest release. In this exciting story, eleven-year-old Oscar has a good life in Cairo, Illinois, even though his mom died when he was little. He and his dad manage just fine, thank you; Oscar......more

Goodreads review by Mary on June 11, 2014

Eleven-year-old Oscar Ogilvie lives with his dad in Cairo, Illinois where they take care of each other and delight in their collection of model trains, until the trains must be sold because the stock market crashes and Oscar's dad loses his job selling John Deere tractors. Oscar moves in with his au......more

Goodreads review by Len on April 05, 2022

A beautifully crafted professional piece of storytelling. Which is perhaps its weakness. It's just too smooth. Oscar Ogilvie Junior – it may be because I am British, but there is something about naming your offspring as a numerological branch of the paternal tree that rubs me up the wrong way – is t......more

Goodreads review by MrsK on December 30, 2021

In Cairo, Illinois, Oscar's heart quickened every time he saw his father carrying a red cardboard box. He knew that it would contain a cherished memory... a new Lionel train! Since the time in which Oscar was three, after his mother's death, his father and him had began collecting, designing, and cr......more

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