The Great Railroad Race: the Diary of Libby West
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The Great Railroad Race: the Diary of Libby West

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Kristiana Gregory
Kristiana Gregory
1999 • 203 pages

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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.

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Dear America is a 39-book series with 39 released primary works first released in 1996 with contributions by Kathryn Lasky, Kristiana Gregory, and Barry Denenberg.

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