Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
8.3
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
20383
Points per Word
0.000196
Page Count
128
Points per Page
0.03125
Description
In 1854 to celebrate the first railway connection between the Atlantic and the Mississippi, 1000 travelers went by train to Rock Island, IL, to start a 400-mile steamboat trek to the Twin Cities. The coauthor is Pamela Allen Larson.