The Railway Children (2000 film) The Railway Children (2000 film) The Railway Children is a 2000 drama television film based on the novel by E. Nesbit. It was broadcast for the first time in the United Kingdom on 23 April 2000. Shortly afterward, it was shown in the United States on the series "Masterpiece Theatre". Roberta (Bobbie), Peter and Phyllis live a comfortable and carefree upper middle-class life in London with their parents. But when their father (Michael Kitchen), a senior civil servant, is arrested on a charge of treason and found guilty, they are forced to move with their mother to "Three Chimneys", a
The Boy Who Went Away The Boy Who Went Away The Boy Who Went Away is a 1997 debut novel by Eli Gottlieb, it won the Rome Prize, the McKitterick Prize in 1998, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. and has been identified as one of the best novels of the 1990s. Set in 1967 in Essex County, New Jersey, the story is a first person narrative by adolescent Denny Graubert about his dysfunctional family and autistic older teenage brother Fad. His mother Harta struggles against the authorities, using all means possible to keep Fad out of an institution, while his