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    Train I Ride

    By Paul Mosier

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    4 starred reviews! "Heartbreaking, hilarious, and life-affirming" (Ami Polonsky, author of Gracefully Grayson and Threads)

    Rydr is on a train heading east, leaving California, where her gramma can’t take care of her anymore, and traveling to Chicago, to live with an unknown relative. She brings with her a backpack, memories both happy and sad, and a box containing something very important.

    As Rydr meets her fellow passengers and learns their stories, her own story begins to emerge. It’s one of sadness and heartache, and one Rydr would sometimes like to forget.

    But as much as Rydr may want to run away from her past, on the train she finds that hope and forgiveness are all around her, and most importantly, within her, if she’s willing to look for it.

    From Publishers Weekly Flying Start author Paul Mosier comes a poignant story about a young girl’s travels by train from Los Angeles to Chicago in which she learns along the way that she can find family wherever she is. Perfect for fans of Rebecca Stead and Sharon Creech.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJan 24, 2017
    ISBN9780062455758
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    Train I Ride
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    Paul Mosier

    Paul Mosier began writing novels in 2011 but has written in some fashion his entire life. He is married and the father to two daughters, one of whom has passed to the next dimension. He lives near his place of birth in downtown Phoenix, Arizona. He loves listening to baseball on the radio, eating vegetarian food, drinking coffee, and talking nonstop. He has written three critically acclaimed books for middle grade readers: Train I Ride, Echo’s Sister, and Summer and July. Visit him on his blog, novelistpaulmosier.wordpress.com.

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    • 4/5
      Her mother, now dead, was a drug addict. The grandmother who took her in just died. A distant uncle in Chicago agrees to take the 12-year-old girl in. Calling herself Rydr, she must travel on Amtrak from California. Train staff and good people she meets become more of a family than she has ever known.
    • 4/5
      Rydr is taking an eastbound train from California to Chicago to live with a distant family member. Because she doesn't have a parent or guardian, she is accompanied by a well-meaning, yet uninvolved chaperone. As the train makes its way across the Rockies, the reader will learn that Rydr is a very independent young woman who has had a very unstable childhood. Because of this, she has learned some street smart ways to cope and adapt. Her tough exterior, topped off with dyed green hair, contradict her thoughtful personality. As the journey continues, Rydr befriends a cast of quirky characters working or traveling on the train. Fans of Lynda Mullaly Hunt books will enjoy reading about Rydr and her cross-country adventure.
    • 4/5
      Following an intense read of Crisis of Character with a wonderful YA book provides a break from trying to process what happened, and what is happening in our country.I believe Train I Ride will be in the list of one of the top ten books of 2017. This is a story of a young girl, damaged by a life lived harshly because of the mistakes of her mother, grandmother and others along the way. As she tried to stop her mother's drug addiction, sadly, it was too much for her to handle. She landed in a down and out place with her elderly grandmother who did not particularly want her, when her grandmother died, she eventually was given to a distant relative she had never met. As she travels on a train from California to Chicago to meet the relative, she has no money in her pocket for food, she somehow comes up with some ingenious ways to get fed.This is a story of a journey and the people met along the way. As the stories of others merge with the story of her life, she learns that others too are scared and simply trying to make the best of life given the hand dealt.This is a book of hope. I laughed and cried. Mainly, I grew to have tremendous respect for this spunky, wonderful child/young lady who took a train and found some wonderful souls, who like her, were simply trying to get by one destination at a time.Four Stars!
    • 5/5
      This is a beautifully written book and a brilliantly told story. It’s an extraordinary book and I’m putting it on my favorites shelf. This is a children’s book about an almost 13 year old girl, narrated by her.I was completely invested in her character and her story and also in the stories/lives of some of the other characters in the book. As an eleven or twelve year old this book would have been lifesaving for me and I’d have loved it at ages nine and ten too. This would have been a one day/one reading session book except that I started reading very late the evening before the day I finished it.I cried at the end and felt like crying many times throughout the book. It’s a fantastic book for children ages 9-13. Adult alert: sensitive children and young children (under age 11) and the children who could most benefit (with experiences at all similar to the narrator) from reading this story or having it read to them, their adults might want to consider if its power would be helpful or detrimental. I would personally err on the side of recommending this book to most children. It would make a wonderful read aloud, both one to one and with groups. We eventually learn the girl’s real last name but not her first name and that was fine, even though I wanted to know. I liked how the future is left open ended. I believe that this story is nearly perfectly told. At least I cannot think of anything different that would have improved the book. It is a terribly sad story but one that’s also funny and charming and hopeful and endearing. I love the brief on the train relationships and how meaningful and powerful they are and how they significantly impact everyone involved. A top notch children’s book that most adults should be able to thoroughly enjoy.I have positive feelings for trains. I was predisposed to enjoy this book. I loved riding trains when I was young. I rode the California Zephyr several times from Northern California to Chicago and back, a different route than the Southern California to Chicago this girl rides. I also rode other routes. This book inspired me to finally add a “trains” shelf and I don’t know why I hadn’t created a “trains” shelf before now. One of my first ever favorite books was The Little Engine That Could and I’m sure I’ll find plenty of books that belong on my new “trains” shelf. “The best kind of people are people who feel, and who hold hope in their hearts. Even if it sometimes means being hurt and disappointed. Even if it always means being hurt and disappointed.” “Lots of things that are worth seeing aren't happy things.”
    • 5/5
      This book. THIS BOOK. I am in love with this book. It’s so beautiful and so perfect and I’m already recommending it to everyone, asking the library to order more copies, and buying my own. It is so touching and emotional, but in a casual way. It’s not over-the-top flowery, but some of the moments make you tear up. The characters are so real, I’m still thinking about them. Everyone must read this book.