- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: OUP Oxford; New edition edition (3 Oct 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0192752669
- ISBN-13: 978-0192752666
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 588,731 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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an absolutely wonderful book - it is no wonder that McCaughrean is celebrated as one of the greatest living children's authors. (The Bookseller )
...a tense, fast-moving adventure story, sustained to the very last page, with an inspiring sense of community spirit. (Financial Times )
With its great depth and texture, its masterful dialogue and description it is the work of a great writer which will move readers to tears and laughter. I cannot recommend it strongly enough. (Times Educational Supplement )
For a really good read, look no further than this excellent, unpredictable and engrossing novel from a genuine master of the imagination. (The Independent ) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
...a tense, fast-moving adventure story, sustained to the very last page, with an inspiring sense of community spirit. (Financial Times )
With its great depth and texture, its masterful dialogue and description it is the work of a great writer which will move readers to tears and laughter. I cannot recommend it strongly enough. (Times Educational Supplement )
For a really good read, look no further than this excellent, unpredictable and engrossing novel from a genuine master of the imagination. (The Independent ) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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Wonderful, exciting adventure story full of daring deeds and period detail
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I was given a copy of this book with a high recommendation although its still some way too old for my children and I would put in in my top twenty books of all time. I'm 33 and I loved every moment of it. It's a really gripping and moving story of American Pioneers going onto the Oklahoma prairie and settling in the middle of nowhere. Written through the eyes of a child, there's hardship, humour and spirit, excitment and suspense throughout and it is unput downable. If you loved the Little House on the Prairie series then this is bolder and better. The writing is beautifully vivid and it is wasted in a children's book pigeon hole. For those adults who enjoyed Holes, I'd definitely recommend this as your next read from the children's shelf. Buy it for your whole book club.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a truly magnificent book in originality and style. The assorted and believable characters are fabulous. I was hooked on this story from the very beginning, following the adventures of the people of Florence, O.K., as they try to save their town.
Humourous, poignant, gripping and beautiful, this is a book that will always stay in your mind.
Humourous, poignant, gripping and beautiful, this is a book that will always stay in your mind.
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is the sort of book that is so good you want to read it in one sitting and yet somehow are loathe for it to end. Yes that good!
Set in 19th century wilderness Oklahoma, it is the story of stout hearted Cissy and her settler family and neighbours. Their lives are a daily struggle to make the rectangles of bare earth and scrub, where they have staked their claims pay their way, and blossom into the prosperous town of Florence.
Their fortunes take a downturn when they evoke the wrath of the powerful railroad baron Clifford T Rimm (now there's a name and a half!), by refusing to sell up to him. In spite at being thwarted, he then refuses to allow his trains to stop at Florence station and so severs the vital commerce connection with the town.
So even before it has begun, Florence begins to fade away. But the brave and resourceful Florentines do not intend to give up without a fight, and the battle begins to stop the train......
I won't spoil the reader's fun by giving too much of the twists and turns of the plot away but its exiting stuff at times and you really begin to care what happens to the characters. Deservedly Runner Up for this year's major UK Children's Book Award the Carnegie Medal, Stop the Train is a classic in the making. The screenplay has already been written by the author, so let's hope it does get the chance to be a great film as well as a great book!
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BIG KIDS LOVE GOOD BOOKS TOO!
I bought this from a favourable press review and it has lived up to the glowing praise that was heaped upon it. Read more
Published 4 days ago by Denis Reed
Stop That Train!
Cissy and her family have come to set up a grocery store in the brand new town of Florence, Oklahoma, near the railroad. Read more
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This book is kind of hard to get in to but when you have you can't stop reading about the troubles that the town went through to Stop the Train. I couldn't put it down. Read more
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