Books with title Ghost Train

This third book in the Cascade Mountain Railroad Mysteries series, based on a page from American history, follows a trio of mischievous and determined young crime solvers.It is 1926 in the remote camp town of Scenic, Washington, and Billy, Dannie and Finn have more on their minds than the upcoming Fourth of July pageant. When Billy finds a mysterious burlap sack containing a threatening note, he and his best friends have a brand new case to solve.Does the note have something to do with the strange, unscheduled trains that are moving through Scenic? The trail leads the trio to a planned railroad heist of a special train carryingraw silk worth millions from the Seattle shipyards to the East Coast textile mills. But time is running out as the three friends frantically search for clues to the identity of the robber before the targeted “ghost train” passes through Scenic.Anne Capeci’s fast-paced historical series offers young readers a satisfying mystery, well-drawn characters, and an authentic portrait of the rough and tumble life of a western camp town in the 1920s.

The story of a young Chinese girl arriving in North America only to discover that her father has died building the railway, and how she finds a way through her grief. This powerful, unforgettable and multi-award-winning tale is based on the lives of the Chinese who settled on the west coast of North America in the early 1900s.Left behind in China by her father, who has gone to North America to find work, Choon-yi has made her living by selling her paintings in the market. When her father writes one day and asks her to join him, she joyously sets off, only to discover that he has been killed. Choon-yi sees the railway and the giant train engines that her father died for, and she is filled with an urge to paint them. But her work disappoints her until a ghostly presence beckons her to board the train where she meets the ghosts of the men who died building the railway. She is able to give them peace by returning their bones to China where they were born.

13-year-old Remi DuMont, newly arrived from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where his family lived in poverty, hopes that life will be different in West Oakland, California, where refrigerators, hot running water and television are but three new wonders and some kids are wondrously fat. But when he and his parents move into the second-floor apartment of a spooky old Victorian house in a neighborhood haunted by real-life terrors of gangs, drugs and violence, the last thing Remi expects are ghosts!Every night at 3:13 while his mother and father sleep, Remi hears a train approaching, seemingly headed straight for the house. From his window he sees a murder committed aboard the train as it rumbles past below. Remi, who shares his father's interest in the supernatural, soon realizes that the murderer, the victim, and the train are ghosts; and the murder he sees reenacted each night happened in 1943 when Liberty ships were built in Oakland to help win World War II. Together with his downstairs neighbor, chubby, streetwise, Niya Bedford, also 13, they put together the pieces of this undiscovered crime, which includes the unexplained disappearance of another 13-year-old boy, the son of the elderly and reclusive landlady who lives on the house's dark third floor. In their attempt to solve the mystery by searching for a body they believe to have been buried in the house's basement, Remi and Niya find themselves pulled into the ghostly manifestation where the laws of the living don't apply, becoming ghosts from the future haunting the past and locked in a life-and-death struggle with a dead murderer and time itself.

This third book in the Cascade Mountain Railroad Mysteries series, based on a page from American history, follows a trio of mischievous and determined young crime solvers.It is 1926 in the remote camp town of Scenic, Washington, and Billy, Dannie and Finn have more on their minds than the upcoming Fourth of July pageant. When Billy finds a mysterious burlap sack containing a threatening note, he and his best friends have a brand new case to solve.Does the note have something to do with the strange, unscheduled trains that are moving through Scenic? The trail leads the trio to a planned railroad heist of a special train carryingraw silk worth millions from the Seattle shipyards to the East Coast textile mills. But time is running out as the three friends frantically search for clues to the identity of the robber before the targeted “ghost train” passes through Scenic.Anne Capeci’s fast-paced historical series offers young readers a satisfying mystery, well-drawn characters, and an authentic portrait of the rough and tumble life of a western camp town in the 1920s.

As the owner of the Bed & Breakfast, he did not want to upset one of his paying customers. “Mr. Steele, as much as I practice the golden rule of the customer being always right, I have to tell you, you could not have heard a train whistle.”The Steele family has stumbled on to a mystery that challenges their understanding and imagination. Or were they actually invited? An unexpected turn of events takes Mr. Steele and his young boys down a path the leads to adventure and intrigue. What a way to spend a vacation; or was it something else?

Readers follow an old Indian woman seen heading into the orchards, where they hear the sound of a train whistle coming from train tracks supposedly unused for the last fifty years, and they must decide whether to follow the woman or investigate the ghost train.Readers follow an old Indian woman seen heading into the orchards, where they hear the sound of a train whistle coming from train tracks supposedly unused for the last fifty years, and they must decide whether to follow the woman or investigate the ghosttrain

We have all been victims of goading and intimidation at some points in our lives. People that goad and intimidate are not the big people they try to appear to be-it's often a front/false. Lets join our gang Jack, Mary, Tiny Tim, Maitreya, Mitzi and reluctant hero Chris, as he is taunted into taking a train journey of a different sort-a Ghost Train journey…….

“If she had been asleep, it had been the strangest of sleeps, and if she was now awake, it was the strangest of wakings. First there was the silence. She knew, even before she opened her eyes, that something was wrong.”Emma Chandler finds herself in a silent, deserted train with only a ghost for company, but it is a ghost that comforts, not haunts, in a struggle for life. As Emma begins to lose her memory and identity, the mysterious, determined spirit is her link to life.Will Emma understand the truth in time and save herself or will she and the ghost vanish with the train, travelling into oblivion?Train Ghost is a moving, multi-layered story with a gripping, unfolding mystery at its core.“Every library in the country should have not one, but multiple copies.”Review: The School Librarian

Silly Billy stays out late 'Til they lock the fairground gate. Silly Billy all alone Has to catch the GHOST TRAIN home!Billy begins to feel a bit jittery as the ghost train starts filling up on its nightly journey from the fairground. It's not surprising, however, for the passengers do seem a little odd. Can that really be Frankenstein sitting down beside him And who's the guy with fangs and a cloak sitting behind Things start to get really creepy when the driver turns out to be a ghostly pirate - but Billy is not quite what he seems and our menacing monsters have a hairy surprise in store!Fantastic, vibrant artwork dances on the page; ingenious paper engineering brings this spooky world to life and a rollicking rhyme takes the reader on an exhilarating ride full of weird and wonderful surprises.