Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
7.4
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
6012
Points per Word
0.000166
Page Count
48
Points per Page
0.020833
Series
Cornerstones of Freedom
Description
This book discusses construction in the 1860s of the Central Pacific Railroad, or Transcontinental Railroad, and the financial backers and workers involved in this project that reduced coast-to-coast travel from over one hundred days to six days.