You Wouldn't Want to Work on the Railroad!: A Track You'd Rather Not Go Down (You Wouldn't Want To...)
by Ian Graham (Author) David Antram (Illustrator)
Reading Level: 4th − 5th Grade
Series: You Wouldn't Want To...
Experience what it was like to work on the transcontinental railroad!
This interactive series will enthrall young and reluctant readers (Ages 8-12) by making them part of the story, inviting them to become the main character. Each book uses humorous illustrations to depict the sometimes dark and horrific side of life during important eras in history. Get ready...as an Irish laborer living in the United States in the 1860s, you have decided to help build the transcontinental railroad. It's backbreaking!
This interactive series will enthrall young and reluctant readers (Ages 8-12) by making them part of the story, inviting them to become the main character. Each book uses humorous illustrations to depict the sometimes dark and horrific side of life during important eras in history. Get ready...as an Irish laborer living in the United States in the 1860s, you have decided to help build the transcontinental railroad. It's backbreaking!
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Ian Graham
Oliver Green is Research Fellow and former Head Curator of the London Transport Museum. He is the author of many books on transportation, including Underground: How the Tube Shaped London. Contributing authors Ian Graham and Philip Wilkinson have written and consulted on a number of children's non-fiction books. Andrew Nahum is the Principal Curator of Technology and Engineering at The Science Museum, London.
Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9780531228548
Lexile Measure
990
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Franklin Watts
Publication date
February 20, 2014
Series
You Wouldn't Want To...
BISAC categories
JNF025200 - Juvenile Nonfiction | History | United States/19th Century
JNF052000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Social Science | General
JNF052000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Social Science | General
Library of Congress categories
History
Railroads
West (U.S.)
Railroad construction workers
Railroads
West (U.S.)
Railroad construction workers
