Henry and the Golden Spike

LevelUp's fiction stories present a unique blend of high-interest stories and stimulating educational material. Each story brings readers on a new adventure that is perfectly suited to their reading level. The LevelUp program offers reading materials at each Lexile level, so readers can learn to read, read to learn, and read for fun. No matter their reading abilities, LevelUp readers can find stories that speak to them, from fairytales to out-of-this-world alien encounters to everyday experiences. In this historical fiction story, Henry attends the opening of the first transcontiental railroad, but when the golden spike goes missing and it's Henry's fault, he wonders if he'll ever follow in his father's footsteps.