The Train Jumper

OUT OF WORK AND OUT OF LUCK. In Don Brown's TheTrain Jumper Ed "Collie" Collier encounters hobos, misers, racists, and even some kindness while riding the rails during the Great Depression.

Collie leaves home in search of his older brother, who has run off. Battling hunger, hostility, and wrathful weather, he meets an unlikely ally in a young drifter. They jump a freight train, joining thousands and thousands of young boys and men who try riding out the Great Depression by riding the rails.

© 2014 Roaring Brook Press (Libro electrónico): 9781466874367

Fecha de lanzamiento

Libro electrónico: 24 de junio de 2014