DeCamp, Alison.
Summary: In 1895, twelve-year-old Stan decides to find his long-lost father in the logging camps of Michigan, documenting in his scrapbook his travels and encounters with troublesome relatives, his mother's suitors, lumberjacks, and more.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DECWhelan, Gloria.
Summary: In 1878, eleven-year-old Annabel and her parents survive a year of adventure which includes floating downriver in two shacks along with a group of Michigan lumbermen moving logs.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2002
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Fiction Whelan 2002Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC WHEPowell, Patricia Hruby
Summary: Written in blank verse, the story of Mildred Loving, an African American girl, and Richard Loving, a Caucasian boy, who challenge the Viriginia law forbidding interracial marriages in the 1950s.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA FIC POWPearson, Randy D.
Summary: Jam and Jax Trachsel receive an unexpected inheritance from their recently departed uncle Mac– a fully-functioning Kalamazoo brand handcar from the 19th century. When they become stranded over 150 miles from home, do they set it on the train tracks and pump it all the way back? Or, when they find a hand-drawn map their uncle created, do they follow it even further north to the long lost town of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: EdcoCaly Press Inc. 0000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PEAOverton, Morgan
Summary: It's time for the Chugger Championship - the race that all of Chuggington has been waiting for! Join Wilson, Brewster, and Koko as they set off, full-speed ahead, to win the race. Excitement along the rails ensues as the three young trainees get ready for an important test, invent a new contest, start a fun hobby, and learn to accept responsibility. They even discover that a true champion isn't...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A former Confederate soldier still haunted by his past, Cullen Bohannon made a home in Hell on Wheels hunting down the men responsible for killing his family. Following the Indian attack that destroyed the railroad settlement, Cullen spends a long winter reshaping his lust for revenge into a burning ambition, to take control of the Union Pacific and drive it across the country.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HELOverton, Morgan
Summary: Zephie decides to help Brewster with some of his jobs for the day.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CHUOverton, Morgan
Summary: Wilson, Koko, and Brewster save the day and help to keep the town moving as ice and snow cover Chuggington.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CHUSmith, Danna
Summary: Introducing each car of a freight train during a nighttime adventure, this board book invites little ones to find sleepy animals throughout.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD SMICrow, Melinda Melton.
Summary: "Tractor helps Train out of a messy situation"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2012
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Pre-Reader (Orange), Call number: JBR ORANGE CROCrow, Melinda Melton.
Summary: "Fire Truck is very brave, and while he is off fighting a fire, School Bus, Tractor, and Train await his return"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2012
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Pre-Reader (Orange), Call number: JBR ORANGE CROO'Hara, Max
Summary: "Stretching across the wild western frontier, the railroad needs guardians like Wells Fargo detective Wolf Stockburn. Known as the Wolf of the Rails, the steely Scotsman is as cold and hard as the tracks he rides -- and those too foolish to fear him will soon lie dead at his feet . . . When train robbers hit the Boot Hill Express -- so called because of all the people riding it who have ended...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC O'HAYee, Betty G.
Summary: Fifteen-year-old Tam Ling Fan disguises herself as her twin brother, journeys from her village in China to California, and works as a laborer on the Transcontinental Railroad--where she faces danger on multiple fronts--to earn the money her family desperately needs.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Lab 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC YEESummary: As big business takes hold of the rail industry, a local depot gang is forced to either adapt to the new managerial double-talk or take chances with receiving severance pay. Agreements set long ago are suddenly undermined by a new managing director who wipes the slate clean. Tensions mount when the men show up the the depot only to find there is no work for them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY NAVDurbin, William
Summary: In 1867, fifteen-year-old Sean experiences both hardships and rewards when he joins his father in working on the building of the Transcontinental Rairoad
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1999
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Place a hold to request this item.Berenstain, Jan
Summary: The Bears are on a steam train trip across Bear country. Mama and Papa enjoy the scenery but the cubs want to learn about the train. With luck, Grizzly Jones might let them blow the train whistle.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Cullen Bohannon, a former soldier and slaveholder, follows the track of Union soldiers, who killed his wife. This brings him to the middle of one of the biggest projects in US history, the building of the railroad. After the war years in the 1860s, this connected the east with the still wild west.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HELBurke, James Lee
Summary: "The American West in the early 1960s appears to be a pastoral paradise. Aspiring novelist Aaron Holland Broussard has observed it from the open door of a boxcar, riding the rails for both inspiration and odd jobs. Jumping off in Denver, he finds work on a farm and meets Jo Anne McDuffy, a college student and gifted painter. Their connection is immediate, but their romance is complicated by...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BUROwen, James A.
Summary: Three young men are entrusted with the Imaginarium Geographica, an atlas of fantastical places to which they travel in hopes of defeating the Winter King whose bid for power is related to the First World War raging in the Real World.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD OWEEschmann, Reese
Summary: "Twelve-year-old Etta Johnson has Loud Days where she can hear just fine and Quiet Days where sounds come from far away and she gets to retreat into her thoughts. Etta spends most of her time alone, working on her comic book about Invincible Girl, the superhero who takes down super villain Petra Fide. Invincible Girl is brave, daring, and bold--everything Etta wishes she could be. But when...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin, an imprint of Simon & Schuster's Children Publishing Divison 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ESCMay, Tallulah
Summary: "It's Mighty Recycling Day in Tracksville, and Flicker's Mega Mission is to pick up all the bottles and cans and recycle them in Building Yard Station. But when his big pile of recyclables turns into a big problem, it's up to Flicker and the Mighty Express to work together and get the job done and delivered. Will Flicker stay on track and deliver the recyling pile?" --
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD MAYSummary: In season four of AMC's top-rated drama, Hell freezes over. Following the brutal winter of 1868, the railroad is at a standstill and restless workers wreak havoc on Cheyenne. Cullen Bohannon is trapped in a fort with a pregnant wife and the Swede. Thomas Durant is broke and Elam Ferguson is presumed dead. The task of uniting America by rail remains undone and the costs and consequences are...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HELNewman, Patricia.
Summary: On a train trip, an engineer teaches a boy the expressions used by railroad workers as he describes the different kinds of cars, freight, and people they see.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E NewSummary: The Chuggers have a need for speed! Koko is practicing high-speed acceleration at the Chugasonic Speedway with Hanzo and Brewster is laying the first pieces of track for the high-speed link to Tootington!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015