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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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c1996., Morgan Reynolds Inc. Call No: 385 .0979 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Great eventsSummary Note: Recounts the building of the Central Pacific Railroad and sketches the lives of the five men whose idea it was: Theodore Judah, Charlie Crocker, Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, and Collis Huntington.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.