The Train to Impossible Places (Train to Impossible Places #1) (Train to Impossible Places Adventures)

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Robot Roz undertakes an unusual ocean journey to save her adopted island home in this third series entry. Like other middle grade books, The Train to Impossible Places has the classic theme; the truth will always prevail. I think, being honest to everyone including yourself is the main theme of the book. Other message we can all learn from this book; don’t trust strangers too easily and don’t judge someone based on their rumors. These messages are important for children. But this is no ordinary train. This is the magical delivery express for The Union of Impossible Places. It came again: a clank! of metal on metal, like heavy saucepans being smashed together. Her parents wouldn’t be up in the middle of the night, banging pots and pans together, which meant only one thing—there was someone else in the house!

i loved that we had a science interest girl as a main character that tried to figure out what was going on with her understanding of physics. Look out for the next installment in The Train to Impossible Places series, The Great Brain Robbery, coming October 2019.This reassured her a little, but she was still tense as she crossed to her bedroom door and eased it open, taking her bathrobe down from its hook as she did so. The noise was deafening, even out here on the landing. Definitely not burglars, she decided. If she didn’t know any better, she would say it was builders, but what would builders be doing in her house in the middle of the night?

The ending did make up for some of the confusion that happened throughout and I really liked how the story was concluded. The ending left me satisfied in that this book could be a good standalone or it could be a good initial novel in a series. The way that it ended did leave some potential for a sequel but if not for that, readers will be happy knowing that Suzy's adventures will continue. Hello?” Suzy leaned over the banister, wary of another eruption of sparks, and looked down into the hall. At first everything seemed normal, but then a glint of metal caught her eye. Two long silver strips winked up at her from the carpet. They lay side by side, several feet apart, and seemed to run into the house from underneath the front door. Suzy frowned in confusion, her fear momentarily forgotten as she descended the stairs, trying to understand what she was seeing. This wouldn’t do. If the burglars, or whoever they were, burst into the room at any second, she didn’t want them to find her just standing there in her pajamas. (And not even her nice pajamas—the dark blue ones with the lightning bolts on them. These were her spare set: the pink-and-yellow ones with the lacy cuffs that Aunt Belinda had given her for Christmas last year.) If they found her like this, they wouldn’t have to hurt her—she’d probably drop dead of embarrassment.

Very carefully, she reached out to the house phone, which stood on a small table beside the front door, and lifted it from its cradle. Mom! Dad!” She ran into the living room and shook them. Neither of them woke, but her dad snorted and gave a big, slightly dribbly grin.

that felt as if someone’s tried to overstuff the book and everything fell a bit short because of that. The thought came crashing into her mind, huge and urgent and dangerous, and it froze Suzy to the spot. She tried to shift it, to send it away somewhere, but it refused to budge. Even though it was fun to read, I have to admit that there were some scenes that made me sad. P.G. Bell is out there reminding me that instant messaging is not always a good thing; people who work in Postal Delivery would probably lose their job and income. If I look at children’s eyes, I think P.G Bell was trying to tell his younger audiences that there were times where we relied on letters to send a word to someone. And that’s a good thing!

Good night,” she whispered, deciding not to disturb her parents as she padded across the room to the hall. It is a distinct pleasure to read a fantasy quest that doesn’t depend on a parent being absent, abducted or dead, as the impetus, but instead on the main character doing the right thing because it is the right thing to do. Suzy is smart, brave and caring without being sanctimonious - someone we can all look up to in any dimension. Only then did she feel the tremor beneath her feet and realize that the singing sound she heard wasn’t coming from her ears at all—it was coming from the rails. But when this impossible train comes roaring through Suzy’s living room, her world turns upside down. After sneaking on board, Suzy suddenly finds herself Deputy Post Master aboard the train, and faced with her first delivery—to the evil Lady Crepuscula.