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Pierre Berton
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93 pages
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Steel Across the Plains
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A series of accessible, fast-paced non-fiction narratives aimed at pre-teen and young teenage readers. These stories of tremendous determination and hardship tell of the railway men and pioneers who opened up the vast and inhospitable West and in a very real way, created the country of Canada.
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| Weight | 0.091 kg |
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| Dimensions | 21.0 × 14.0 × 1.30 cm |
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