As the daughter of a newspaper reporter, fourteen-year-old Libby keeps a diary account of the exciting events surrounding her during the building of the Transcontinental Railroad in the West in 1868.---from the publisher
204 pages 978-0590109918 Ages 9-12
Keywords: diary, historical fiction, girls and women, American history, Transcontinental Railroad, trains, 19th century, Westward expansion, part of a series, 9 year old, 10 year old, 11 year old, 12 year old
