Ten Mile Day: And the Building of the Transcontinental Railroad

This book tells the interesting story of the big bet made on April 28th in a big push for the final few miles of completing the Transcontinental Railroad. We are using this book as a basis for an activity we will do at the end of the year where our fourth graders will build a scaled railroad to see if they can do a mile in 72 minutes.

For our annual Asian-American Month celebration at school, I read this book to my 4th graders. They were very interested and learned something totally new about the US. The illustrations are fabulous!

I tried to use the "look inside" preview to judge whether it was age appropriate for my child, but there is not even a paragraph of text displayed. Just ads to sign up for mailing lists. For the price of this kindle book I should at least be able to see if it is right for me before I buy it. Move on to another book.

Downloaded a sample for Kindle and not even one page was shown as a sample to read. I wouldn’t want to purchase unless I could see the quality. Sad.