Maybelle the Cable Car

by Virginia Lee Burton

Paperback, 1997

Status

Available

Call number

BURTON

Tags

San Francisco fiction, cable cars fiction

Genres

Publication

HMH Books for Young Readers (1997), 48 pages

Description

Maybelle loves to carry people up and down the hilly streets of San Francisco, until the City Fathers decide that she should be taken out of service in the name of progress.

User reviews

LibraryThing member claire.cavell
Maybelle is a cable car from San Francisco who has given a lot of pleasure to her city. When times changed and buses started to take over old cable car routes the people joined together to fight for Maybelle and her services.

This is an adorable book that can be related to students on many levels.
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 It shows the purpose of preservation and fighting for what you believe in.
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Subjects

Cable cars (Streetcars) Fiction
San Francisco (Calif.) Fiction

Language

English

Original language

English

Original publication date

1952

Physical description

48 p.; 9.44 inches

ISBN

0395840031 / 9780395840030

UPC

046442840033

Barcode

7449

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