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By Mosier, Paul[2017], Pre-adolescent, HarperCollins Call No: REALISTIC F MOS Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Rydr is on a train heading east, leaving California. Her gramma can't take care of her anymore, so she's traveling to Chicago to live with a relative she's never met.
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By Mosier, Paul[2017], Juvenile, Harper Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: After the death of her drug-addicted mother, thirteen-year-old Rydr makes a journey from Palm Springs, California to Chicago where she'll live with an elderly great-uncle whom she's never met and whose ultimate motive in taking her in seems to be to increase his monthly welfare check. During her train ride, alongside her Amtrak escort, Dorothea, she meets other passengers, learns their stories, and finds a sense of family and hope among the strangers she befriends.