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[2022]., Adolescent, Carolrhoda LAB Call No: HISTORICAL F YEE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Fifteen-year-old Tam Ling Fan disguises herself as her twin brother, journeys from her village in China to California, and works as a laborer on the Transcontinental Railroad--where she faces danger on multiple fronts--to earn the money her family desperately needs. Includes author's note.
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[2022]., Adolescent, Carolrhoda Lab Call No: HISTORICAL FICTION FIC YEE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Fifteen-year-old Tam Ling Fan disguises herself as her twin brother, journeys from her village in China to California, and works as a laborer on the Transcontinental Railroad--where she faces danger on multiple fronts--to earn the money her family desperately needs.
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2015., Juvenile, Candlewick Press Call No: 385.09 SAN Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Chronicles the six-year project of building the transcontinental railroad between America's East and West Coasts. Discusses the lives of the visionaries that ran the project, like Theodore Judah and James Strobridge, and how they created two railroad companies to make it happen--the Central Pacific, which built towards the east, and the Union Pacific, which built towards the west.
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2015., Juvenile, Candlewick Press Call No: 385.0978 SANDLER Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Chronicles the six-year project of building the transcontinental railroad between America's East and West Coasts. Discusses the lives of the visionaries that ran the project, like Theodore Judah and James Strobridge, and how they created two railroad companies to make it happen--the Central Pacific, which built towards the east, and the Union Pacific, which built towards the west.
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2015., Candlewick Press Call No: 385.0973 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Just after Gold Fever swept the West - a time when people walked, sailed, or rode horses for months on end to seek their fortune - the question of faster, safer, more reliable transportation between America's East and West Coasts was posed by lawmakers and national leaders. But with 1800 miles of seemingly impenetrable mountains, searing deserts, and endless plains between the Missouri River and San Francisco, could a transcontinental railroad be built?.
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c2000., Simon & Schuster Call No: 385 .0973 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Contributor biographical information Sample text More...
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2004, National Geographic Call No: 385 .0978 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Table of contents Series Title: Crossroads AmericaSummary Note: Presents the story of the transcontinental railroad and those who built it including both Irish and Chinese immigrants and former slaves.
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[2004], Pre-adolescent, National Geographic Call No: 385 .0978 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Table of contents Series Title: Crossroads AmericaSummary Note: Presents the story of the transcontinental railroad and those who built it including both Irish and Chinese immigrants and former slaves.
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2003., Rosen Central Primary Source Call No: 973.81 HOU Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Primary sources in American historySummary Note: Describes the people, circumstances, and events surrounding the building of the railway system across the continent in the mid-nineteenth century.
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2022., Pre-adolescent, First Second Call No: GN 385 HIR Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: History comics (First Second (Firm))Summary Note: "In 1863, America is divided not just by the civil war but by months of travel over thousands of miles. Two railroad companies, one each from East and West, are given the task of connecting the nation by rail. Building this railroad will be a monumental undertaking, difficult and dangerous. The work falls to immigrant laborers from the lowest economic classes. They accomplish astounding feats of engineering while waiting for an answer: Will those who connect the country be accepted into it?"--Provided by the publisher.
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1997., Enslow Publishers Call No: 973.81 STE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: In American historySummary Note: Describes the building of the first railroad to join the eastern and western part of the United States and the effect of this transcontinental link on the future development of the country.
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2001., Juvenile, Rosen Publishing Group's PowerKids Press Call No: 385 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: The library of the westward expansionSummary Note: This book describes the work of two railroad companies that joined the eastern and western tracks of the transcontinental railroad in 1869.
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c2007., Juvenile, Chelsea House Call No: 385.09 Ren Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Table of contents only Series Title: Milestones in American history.
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2007., Juvenile, PowerKids Press Call No: 513.2 4 SHEA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: PowerMathSummary Note: Introduces young readers to the history and development of the Transcontinental Railroad, integrating mathematical problems to explain how proportions are used in everyday life.