Showing results for "The Express" in Teen & Young Adult

As a lady’s maid/bodyguard to royalty, Miss Sharp’s duty seems clear: Protect Princess May, defuse the bomb, and hand over the would-be-killer to the police. At least, that’s what the distractingly good-looking Inspector Short advises. But Liz isn’t so sure.

This is a story about three idiot wannabe detectives: J.J. and Valentine Watts and their new friend Trudi de la Rosa. Again, they’re idiots, but in a fun way where they go on adventures and occasionally use swear words. In this book, they’re riding a train on official Ghost Hunters Adventure Club business when an old friend from the past shows up to ruin everything. It’s up to our three young adventurers to solve the mystery of the Express Train to Nowhere before they’re locked away forever for a crime they didn’t even commit.

The year is 1931. A boy boards a train to visit his friend in New York. A woman in a jumpsuit boards a train to meet her employer in New York. And the conductor? He boards because it's his job. If it had been any other day, they all would have gotten where they were going just fine. But it's...

Prior to the Civil War, the fastest mail between the West Coast and the East took almost thirty days by stagecoach along a southern route through Texas. Some Californians feared their state would not remain in the Union, separated so far from the free states. Then businessman William Russell invested in a way to deliver mail between San Francisco and the farthest western railroad, in Saint Joseph, Missouri - across two thousand miles of mountains, deserts, and plains - guaranteed in ten days or less.

Endlich ist Flinn Nachtigall offiziell Schülerin im Welten-Express, dem magischen Internatszug. Dass sie eines Tages die Welt verändern soll, mag sie allerdings immer noch nicht glauben. Auch ihre Freunde Pegs, Kasim und Fedor sind skeptisch. Da gerät plötzlich der gesamte Zug in Gefahr: Ein geheimnisvoller Schatten treibt sein Unwesen und Maskierte sorgen für Chaos und Angst. Und dann steht Flinn ihrem verschollenen Bruder Jonte gegenüber. Doch irgendetwas stimmt nicht mit ihm.