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2) The spy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In 1908, a brilliant American battleship gun designer dies in a sensational apparent suicide. The man's grief-stricken daughter turns to the legendary Van Dorn Detective Agency to clear her father's name. Van Dorn puts his chief investigator on the case, and Isaac Bell soon realizes that the clues point not to suicide but to murder.
3) The wrecker
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Detective Isaac Bell travels the early-twentieth-century American railways, driven by a sense of justice and a determination to stop a new mastermind reigning terror on a crucial express line in this #1 New York Times-bestselling series.
A year of financial panic and labor unrest, 1907 sees train wrecks, fires, and explosions sabotage the Southern Pacific Railroad’s Cascades express line. Desperate for help the railroad...
A year of financial panic and labor unrest, 1907 sees train wrecks, fires, and explosions sabotage the Southern Pacific Railroad’s Cascades express line. Desperate for help the railroad...
Publisher
Hit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Terence takes a shortcut across a frozen lake while collecting Christmas trees for the holiday market. Disaster strikes as the ice begins to crack, leaving Terence nervously waiting to be rescued. Meanwhile, Daisy is sad when Christmas doesn't go as planned, and Spencer and Gordon upset their passengers when their competitive behavior gets out of hand. Poor Emily gets struck in the middle while helping bickering brothers Donald and Douglas.
7) Unstoppable
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A runaway train, transporting deadly, toxic chemicals, is barreling down on Scranton, Pennsylvania, and only two men can stop it: a veteran engineer and a young conductor. Thousands of lives hang in the balance as these ordinary heroes attempt to chase down one million tons of hurtling steel and prevent an epic disaster.
Author
Series
Train to impossible places volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Suzy Smith joins the troll-operated Impossible Postal Express, but she botches her first delivery by stealing a cursed snow globe containing a boy who claims there is a plot to take control of the Union of Impossible Places.
10) Bullet train
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Ladybug is an unlucky assassin determined to do his job peacefully after one too many gigs gone off the rails. Fate, however, may have other plans, as Ladybug's latest mission puts him on a collision course with lethal adversaries from around the globe, all with connected, yet conflicting, objectives, on the world's fastest train.
11) Snowpiercer
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The film is set in the future (AD 2031) where, after a failed experiment to stop global warming, an ice age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe and is powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. Its inhabitants are divided by class; the lower-class passengers in one of the last cars stage an uprising, moving car by car up to the front of the train, where the oppressive...
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Thomas saves the day when the medals for the children's Sports Day are left in the station. Gordon wants nothing to do with the big engine-decorating contest, but a large banner might alter his plans, and more fun with Thomas.
13) Choo-choo school
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Follow seven adorable train cars on their first day of school as they learn some math, sing some songs, climb a hill, and learn the entire alphabet!
Series
Publisher
Marshall Publishing and Promotions
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
No matter what age, if the viewer love trains, then they're guaranteed to love this award-winning collection of 3 non-stop big train action programs! Each program features spectacular close-up camera footage combined with many of your favorite sing-along train songs and original music by James Coffey. Witness the thundering action of almost every kind of train in the world! It's just like being trackside watching non-stop big train action.
Publisher
Showtime
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Before street art became mainstream, the anonymous outlaws of "freight writing" put graffiti on the map. One of the most extreme and risky iterations of the art form, freight train graffiti culture has a rich history, laden with myth-like artists, remarkable romances, and competitive graffiti crews. Delving into the underground subculture reveals the deep connection between graffiti and the American landscape, as well as the artists' obsession with...
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
When trouble strikes at the Blue Mountain Quarry, Thomas is sent to help his Narrow Gauge engine friends. While shunting and hauling, he catches a glimpse of a small engine trying to hide, yet no one will provide any clues to the engine's identity. Thomas is determined to get to the bottom of the mystery, but discovering the truth is harder than he imagined! Will Thomas be able to save his new friend? Or will the mysterious engine be sent away from...
19) SAS: red notice
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When SAS operator Tom Buckingham takes his girlfriend, Sophie, from London to Paris to propose, their train is hijacked by notorious war criminal Grace Lewis. Trapped in the English Channel and facing a massive loss of life if Grace's plan goes awry, Tom is the only hope that Sophie and the passengers have to survive.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Harrison Beck is reluctantly joining his travel-writer Uncle Nat for the last journey of the royal train, The Highland Falcon. But as the train makes its way to Scotland, a priceless brooch goes missing, and things suddenly get a lot more interesting. As suspicions and accusations run high among the passengers, Harrison begins to investigate and uncovers a few surprises along the way. Can he solve the mystery of the jewel thief and catch the culprit...
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