CBC/NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book • The Golden Kite Award
The poignant words of two-time Coretta Scott King Award–winning author Angela Johnson is a force in this heartbreaking yet uplifting book about a boy, his love for trains, and his adulation of one legendary engineer.
Papa says
it's the sound of leaving
that speaks to my soul ...
A young black boy toils all day long on a cotton field where his one escape is watching the trains go by on the nearby tracks and imagining they're carrying him somewhere far away—maybe with Casey Jones at the helm. But when the boy loses his hero, will he lose his dream, too?
