Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express: First Reader - Softcover
When the Des Moines River valley floods in the summer of 1881, the bridge over Honey Creek collapses and Kate Shelley courageously rescues two locomotive crewmen from the creek's swirling waters
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Karen Ritz has illustrated books for all ages, including "Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express," a Reading Rainbow feature book. She has a degree in children's literature from the University of Minnesota and teaches illustration and workshops on visual literacy. She lives with her husband and two children in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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"Based on a true incident, this story recounts the heroic action of...a nineteenth-century Midwestern girl who saved an express train from disaster...A substantive adventure for newly independent readers."
"Based on a true incident, this story recounts the heroic action of. . . a nineteenth-century Midwestern girl who saved an express train from disaster. . . A substantive adventure for newly independent readers." -- Booklist
"The story's factual basis makes it all the more appealing, and Ritz's charcoal-and-wash drawings evoke the setting and imbue personalities with lots of character. A substantive adventure for newly independent readers." --Booklist
"Watercolor and charcoal illustrations are strong and stormy, with enough dignity to make the book appealing to older reluctant readers." --The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
"Based on a true incident, this story recounts the heroic action of. . . a nineteenth-century Midwestern girl who saved an express train from disaster. . . A substantive adventure for newly independent readers." -- Booklist
"The story's factual basis makes it all the more appealing, and Ritz's charcoal-and-wash drawings evoke the setting and imbue personalities with lots of character. A substantive adventure for newly independent readers." --Booklist
"Watercolor and charcoal illustrations are strong and stormy, with enough dignity to make the book appealing to older reluctant readers." --The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
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- PublisherHoughton Mifflin School
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0395732344
- ISBN 13 9780395732342
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages56
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