I AM CANADA: Railroad

This was one of the first three I Am Canada books. The majority of the series is about various battles and wars, so I love ones like this that not only aren't about fighting, but are also about people who aren't white.

Heen is an easy character to like, although his father is another story completely. The flurry of nicknames is a bit hard to keep track of, simply because there are so many of them and only a shred of characterization is assigned to most.

As you can guess, most of the story is either people getting hurt or the Chinese workers being taken advantage of by the railroad system. It's still a good read, but appalling to see how much Heen earned versus how much he actually took home. The last page of the journal is a chart detailing just that.

One of the things I liked best about this is that at least two incidents overlapped with the previous Dear Canada book.