Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.9
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
22290
Points per Word
0.000135
Page Count
131
Points per Page
0.022901
Series
Passages to History
Description
In 1865, sixteen-year-old Lao Wai comes to America to make his fortune building the transcontinental railroad. The work is hard and dangerous for the Chinese workers, who are the key players in a daring plan to lay the track across the mountains.