Trains and time travel spur one boy's thrilling adventure as he seek to rejoin his father in this new classic.
One day in a house at the end of Lucifer Street, on the Mississippi River side of Cairo, Illinois, eleven-year-old Oscar Ogilvee's life is changed forever. The Crash of 1929 has rippled across the country, and Oscar's dad must sell their home – with all their cherished model trains – and head west in search of work. Forced to move in with his humourless Aunt Carmen and his teasing cousin Willa Sue, Oscar is lonely and miserable – until he meets a mysterious drifter and witnesses a crime so stunning it catapults Oscar on an incredible journey from coast to coast, from one decade to another.
- ISBN10 1406330140
- ISBN13 9781406330144
- Publish Date 1 November 2010 (first published 28 September 2010)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 January 2024
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Walker Books Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 336
- Language English