TY - SER
KW - Allegheny Portage Railroad
KW - Pennsylvania Canal
KW - Charles Dickens (1812-70)
AU - Jane Louise Curry
AB - In March of 1842, Charles Dickens is on the Pittsburgh leg of his American tour.  Twins Cherry and Sam Dobbs learn of a Harrisburg bookseller’s plot to pilfer Dickens’ newly finished novel, and follow Dickens down the Juniata River trying to recover the manuscript.
C1 - 1842
C3 - Allegheny Mountains; Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; Blair County; Hollidaysburg; Williamsburg; Cambria County; Johnstown; Westmoreland County
C4 - Children’s; Historical; Mystery; Road
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N2 - In March of 1842, Charles Dickens is on the Pittsburgh leg of his American tour.  Twins Cherry and Sam Dobbs learn of a Harrisburg bookseller’s plot to pilfer Dickens’ newly finished novel, and follow Dickens down the Juniata River trying to recover the manuscript.
PB - Margaret K. McElderry Books
PP - New York
PY - 1991
RN - Jane Louise Curry (1932— ) was born in East Liverpool, Ohio, and grew up in Kittanning, Armstrong County and Johnstown, Cambria County. She studied at Penn State, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, UCLA, the University of London, and Stanford. She's written over 30 books for children and teens, especially plots that feature, she says, “time slips into the past, mystery, danger, and narrow escapes.” She divides her time between London and Los Angeles.
EP - 153 p.
TI - What the Dickens!
ER -