Kit Saves the Day

In this book Kit has been working on tending the family garden and gathering ripe tomatoes so they can be canned. A young boy named Will arrives and it turns out he's a hobo who is willing to work for food.

After he leaves Kit and Stirling decide to take some food to the hobo camp where he currently lives but once there they are goaded into jumping a train by one of the other hobos. The train ends up going the opposite direction the guy told them it would and crosses the Ohio River but stops almost immediately.

Various men appear and pull the hobos off the train and take them to jail, including Kit and Stirling. Kit manages to escape and heads to her home, hoping her parents will be able to got to the jail and free Stirling. Along the way she is nearly killed by a train and various other dangers that she has to face alone.

Much of the book deals with the hobo life including why they travel, their "secret sign language," and just who were hobos, along with how they were treated and regarded by other people, and the historical section adds information on that.

It's definitely a scarier and rougher book than most others in the series, especially in relationship to the physical dangers Kit faces.

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