When the whistle blows /
Fran Cannon Slayton.
- New York : Philomel Books, c2009.
- 162 p. ; 22 cm.
School Library Journal starred, June 2009 Kirkus Starred, May 2009 Booklist, July 2009 Horn Book, October 2009 Bulletin (Center for Children's books), October 2009 Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), October 2009
Jimmy Cannon tells about his life in the 1940s as the son of a West Virginia railroad man, loving the trains and expecting one day to work on the railroad like his father and brothers.
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Railroads--Fiction. Family life--West Virginia--Fiction. Country life--West Virginia--Fiction.