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Across America on an Emigrant Train |
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Publication Information |
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| Author: Murphy, Jim | Illustrator: | ||||||||||
| Title: Across America on an Emigrant Train | Date: 1993 | ||||||||||
| Publisher: Clarion Books | City: New York, NY | ||||||||||
| ISBN, paperback: 0-395-63390-7 | ISBN, hardback: | ||||||||||
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| ABE/ABLE: Yes | ESOL: | ||||||||||
| Family: | Young Adult: Yes | ||||||||||
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General Information: |
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| Book Type(s): nonfiction, biography and autobiography, diaries and journals | |||||||||||
GED Descriptor(s): social studies |
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Summary: |
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| This nonfiction account of Robert Louis Stevenson's train trip from New York to California combines Stevenson's words from his letters and diary, a factual description of the railroad industry and the 19th-century U.S. West, and amazing old photographs and drawings. | |||||||||||
Teaching Ideas: |
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| Students who are interested in Stevenson's travels may want to also look at Stanley's The Last Princess, which provides background to and the history of Hawaii. The book would fit well in a unit on the U.S. West or in a unit on biographies of famous writers (with Bedard's Emily or Stanley and Vennema's Charles Dickens, for example). | |||||||||||
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