title: National Geographic Readers: Trains
author:  Amy Shields 
description: AMY SHIELDS lives in a little house in the middle of the woods in upstate New York. She has an unusual friendship with her two dogs, Jenny and Toby, but the real loves of her life are her two daughters. She has written and ghostwritten many books for children.
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  RIVERHEAD BOOKS
  
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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  
  Hawkins, Paula.
  
  The girl on the train / Paula Hawkins.
  
  p. cm.
  
  ISBN 978-0-698-18539-5
  
  1\. Railroad travel—Fiction. 2. Commuters—Fict