Callie’s Reviews > The Railway Children > Status Update

Reading this with my 5th grade class and this part really got me:

[Peter] said, “I do like moving! I wish we moved once a month.”
Mother laughed.
“I don’t!” she said. “Goodnight, Peterkin.”
As she turned away Roberta saw her face. She never forgot it.
“Oh, Mother,” she whispered all to herself, “how brave you are! Fancy being brave enough to laugh when you’re feeling like that!”