A Ribbon of Shining Steel: The Railway Diary of Kate Cameron [French]

This book is one of the Dear Canada series, which are historical novels, written in diary format, about fictional girls during different periods of Canadian history. Twelve-year-old Kate Cameron and her family live in the town of Yale, British Columbia, in 1882, where her father is helping to build the new Canadian Pacific Railway. Kate's parents give her a diary, and in it, she records life in a railway town, the dangers to the workers, and her own frustrations at trying to be the young lady her mother wants her to be so she won't be sent away to a school for young ladies. Like the other books in the Dear Canada series, this is a fascinating look at a period in Canadian history as seen through a young girl's diary. I'd highly recommend this book to fans of the Dear Canada and Dear America series as well as to young fans of historical fiction. Kate is a lively and believable character whose diary truly brings to life the hardships and excitement of life in the old west during the building of the railroads.

Kathleen Louise Cameron, or Kate, shares with her diary the hardships of life-friendship difficulties, deaths and injuries with the transcontinental railway being buit, and more. A very good book.