William Durbin / Hardcover / Ages 9-12 / Published 1999 / 7.67 / Review. Elizabeth’s family has just traveled up the James River and come ashore, part of the first permanent English settlement in the New World. The Journal of Sean Sullivan: A Transcontinental Railroad Worker (My Name Is. Virginia’s story opens in 1863 in Gettysburg, Pa., where the Civil War is raging all around her. William Durbin is an award-winning author and a former teacher who lives at the edge of Minnesotas Boundary Waters Wilderness.
A young boys experience of working on the Transcontinental Railroad. The two books in this series - Virginia’s Diary and Elizabeth’s Diary - are written in journal format, but unlike the books for older readers, Scholastic plans future volumes about both main characters. The Journal of Sean Sullivan: A Transcontinental Railroad Worker By William Durbin Reading Level: Late Elementary School Genre: Fiction Publisher: Scholastic 1999 Find this book in a library near you, using. The books for younger girls - “My America” - are intended for readers as young as 7 who have shown an interest in history. Until the Last Spike, the Journal of Sean Sullivan, a Transcontinental Railroad Worker, Nebraska and Points West, 1867. An ugly image, but the unsanitized approach makes the world these boys lived in come alive. The man has survived an Indian attack but is carrying his bloody scalp in a bucket, hoping a doctor can reattach it. While Sean is waiting on the platform, a bloodied man steps off the train. Sean’s story, for instance, opens in Omaha, Neb., where he is meeting his father. These books are grittier and more violent than their fictional sisters.
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