Books with title Cow on the Tracks

Another tough choice... Ever since Melanie Graham came to live with her cousin Christina Reese, she's had her eye on the track. She wants to be an exercise rider, and maybe one day, a winning jockey. With her aunt Ashleigh's Thoroughbreds. And she loves it. Finally, she's discovered her calling. But Christina is jealous. She's been acting weird ever since Melanie began working with Ashleigh. Melanie desperately wants to continue her training, but is it worth losing her cousin's friendship?

Stella, a friendly steam locomotive and a modern diesel are two of the track vehicles that kids can ride in their imaginations. Toddlers go traveling with Funtime Rhymes board books. As they turn the pages they also learn the uses and purposes of different vehicles. Kids will delight as Mom or Dad reads the descriptive rhymes that accompany every bright, cartoon-style illustration. There are five vehicles and five accompanying rhymes in each of these entertaining, sturdily-bound books.

The story tells of two men, one (Matthew Kumalo) bent on disrupting the stretch of Rhodesia Railways track south of Victoria Falls and towards Bulawayo in the south, harassing and murdering railway staff, and the other in protecting the same and keeping traffic flowing. Phillip Lewis, was the railway civil engineer in charge of keeping the vital railway lines open in the face of the continued terrorist attacks. Joanna Wilson, working as a reporter on the South African Johannesburg Star newspaper, was the woman that Phillip had never got out of his system. She revisits Rhodesia with a South African media group to report on the war presently raging across the country. Simultaneously the ZANLA forces of Robert Mugabe, working out of Mozambique, are planning to destroy the road/rail bridge over the Zambezi River at Victoria Falls, chiefly to prevent Joshua Nkomo’s Russian tanks crossing from Zambia into Rhodesia where they could potentially be used against Mugabe’s ZANU party. The war of terror subsequently leads to Phillip and Joanna being isolated and pursued through the bush leaving Phillip with life-changing decisions to make.The AuthorTom Bryer, OLM, C.Eng. FICE (ret’d)A retired Chartered Civil Engineer, whose career centred on the design, construction and maintenance of a variety of railway systems, including those in Central and Southern Africa, Channel Tunnel, Docklands Light Railway, London Underground, Network Rail and South Wales Docks. Tom lived with his wife Ida in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe for a period from 1967 to 1983 and witnessed much of the internal strife of the period. Recently a widower, he now spends his time writing novels (un-published), choir singing and tending to house and garden.

In Trouble on the Tracks, Ruby and Maude find a new friend when a cat named Trouble entwines itself around Maude’s legs and Ruby’s heart. Trouble and the adventurous eleven-year-olds Ruby and Maude try to stay out of trouble during the chaos following two fires in one week that have nearly destroyed the town of Cripple Creek. Can Ruby help it if she must interfere with a lynch mob ready to string up her friend Amos? And how was she to know that she there was no way down when she climbed out on the church roof? And about that business of getting trapped under a moving train, that was a mistake too. Had Ruby known the train was going to leave the station, she would have left Trouble to fend for herself.As in the first Ruby and Maude Adventure, discouraging Pa’s budding romantic interest in Miss Sternum, the schoolmarm, remains paramount on Ruby’s mind. Ruby’s fervent desire is that she and Pa will return to their old life of roaming from mining town to mining town in the Rockies.

Trouble on the Tracks, the second Ruby and Maude Adventure book, returns readers to the Cripple Creek mining town of 1896.Ruby May Oliver and her donkey and best friend, Maude, find a new friend when a cat named Trouble entwines itself around Maude’s legs and Ruby’s heart. Trouble and the adventurous eleven-year-olds Ruby and Maude try to stay out of trouble during the chaos following two fires in one week that have nearly destroyed the town. Can Ruby help it if she must interfere with a lynch mob ready to string up her friend Amos? And how was she to know that she would be stuck if she climbed out on the church roof? And about that business of getting trapped under a moving train, that was a mistake too. Had Ruby known the train was going to leave the station, she would have left Trouble to fend for herself.As in the first Ruby and Maude Adventure, discouraging Pa’s budding romantic interest in Miss Sternum, the schoolmarm, remains paramount on Ruby’s mind. Ruby’s fervent desire is that she and Pa will return to their old life of roaming from mining town to mining town in the Rockies.Trouble on the Tracks is Nancy Oswald’s fourth work of historical fiction set in Colorado.“A fun romp through the Old West, written with humor and charm. Ruby and Maude confront family troubles and thieving outlaws with spunk, smarts, and daring. The friendship between girl and donkey will delight readers of all ages.”—Kathleen Ernst, award-winning author of the Caroline Abbott series from American Girl“Ruby and Maude’s friendship deepens the story and will endear them to readers of all ages. I’m counting on more chapters from colorful Cripple Creek!”—Mary Cronk Farrell, award-winning MG/YA author