The Iron Dragon Never Sleeps

Authors: Krensky, Stephen
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
BISAC/Subject: JUV039120, JUV041050, JUV016140
ISBN: 9780307815965, Related ISBNs: 030781596X, 0385311710, 044041136X, 9780307815965, 9780385311717
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 96,
Audience: Children/juvenile
Synopsis: In 1867, while staying with her father in a small California mining town, ten-year-old Winnie meets a Chinese boy close to her age and discovers the role of his people in completing the transcontinental railroad.
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