The Dreadful Truth: Building the Railway cover

The Dreadful Truth: Building the Railway

Author: Staunton, Ted

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level 6.3
Points 2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Nonfiction
Word Count 10882
Points per Word 0.000184
Page Count 90
Points per Page 0.022222

Description

This book describes the building of Canada's railway and takes the reader on a tour through the railway fiasco beginning in the 1850s with the first attempts at running a steam engine on a short length of track to the building of the railway of Manitoba.