TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gold,Bernice
TI  - Strange School, Secret Wish
SN  - 0888784252
U1  - F GOL 
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Vancouver
PB  - Sandcastle
KW  - Rural schools
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Trains
KW  - Violin
KW  - Determination (Personality trait)
KW  - Families
KW  - Helping behavior
KW  - Ontario, Northern
KW  - FICTION / Historical / Canada
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Canadian fiction
KW  - Authors, Canadian
N1  - 4-6; 9-12
N2  - The year is 1927, and the Merril children are once again in school but one that's unlike any other. For 10 months out of the year their school, set up in a Northern Ontario railway care that also serves as their home, is on the move. Theirteen-year-old Jenny Merrill loves life on the tracks, but she has a secret wish. She's fallen in love with a violin on page 244 of the Eaton's catalogue. But how will she get the money to pay for it?
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