Boundless / Kenneth Oppel / 332 pages

Boundless is a great read for all of those middle grade readers who enjoy mystery, suspense, danger, action, magic, and even a bit of the supernatural.  Oppel sets this historical fiction story on the most magnificent train ever built, the Boundless, which has embarked on a maiden trip from coast to coast across the Canadian Pacific Railway. The primary character, Will Everett is an artistic teen who wants to have an adventure and he nails it with surviving an avalanche, coming face to face with a Sasquatch, witnessing a murder and being pursued by the killers, nearly being drowned in a bog, jumping cars on a moving train, and becoming an act in the circus.  A fun read that will keep readers turning the pages and thinking about the romance of riding the rails in a rousing adventure.