Passages from this book appeared in the homeschooling textbook "Writing With Ease," so I decided to read the whole book to my kids (7 & 9) - it's a book written and set around 1906 in England, and its about 3 kids from a comfortable city background whose father is arrested on charges of treason (though this is not revealed for some time) and are forced to live a poorer life in the countryside near a railway station, which then becomes central to their lives. Not great literature, but good reading for the kids, overall.