num_pages: 204
description: As the daughter of a newspaper reporter, fourteen-year-old Libby keeps a diary account of the exciting events surrounding her during the building of the Transcontinental Railroad in the West in 1868.
language: English
title: The Great Railroad Race: the Diary of Libby West
titlecomplete: The Great Railroad Race: the Diary of Libby West (Dear America)
genres: Fiction, Historical, Juvenile, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Young Readers, American History, Diary, Childrens, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 3867
places: Utah
series: Dear America
publisher: Scholastic Inc.