The Railway Children
by E. Nesbit
E. Nesbit's 1906 story. Three children move with their mother to a cottage by a railway after their father disappears, and their small adventures slowly lead to a happy secret.
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They were not railway children to begin with. I don't suppose they had ever thought about railways except as a means of getting to Maskelyne and Cook's, the Pantomime, Zoological Gardens, and Madame Tussaud's. They were just ordinary suburban children, and they lived with their Father and Mother in an ordinary red-bric…E. Nesbit, The Railway ChildrenStart reading The Railway Children free →
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Simple, kind and episodic, with short chapters. A good A2 to B1 read.
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