Fran Cannon Slayton

About me:

"When the railroad's in your blood, it draws you like a pump draws water from the ground."

Meet a town and a train and a time and a boy - Jimmy Cannon. And meet his father - as strong as a Mallet locomotive - whom Jimmy simply cannot figure out! But who, in a dramatic and unexpected twist, turns out to be so much more than Jimmy every knew.

In a book that goes to the core of boyhood - its Halloween mischief, its hunting day mystery, its championship football game surprise, and its nighttime adventures - Fran Cannon Slayton brings her listeners to the breathtaking crossroads of an unforgettable West Virginia railroad town, a family that matters, and adulthood itself.

Hi, I'm the author of When the Whistle Blows (Penguin/Philomel, 2009), a coming of age story about Jimmy Cannon and his Halloween adventures as he discovers his father's membership in a secret society.

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