Title:
What is the Panama Canal? / by Janet B. Pascal ; illustrated by Tim Foley.
ISBN:
9780606356886
9780448478999
9781480639959
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Publication Information:
New York, New York : Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), 2014.
Physical Description:
108 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
Contents:
What is the Panama Canal? -- From the Atlantic to the Pacific -- A railroad built on corpses -- A canal? -- The French try their hand -- The United States steps in -- War! -- Killing mosquitoes -- A man with a plan -- Finishing the job -- Success! -- The Canal today.
Summary:
"Before 1914, traveling from the East Coast to the West Coast meant going by land across the entire United States. To go by sea involved a long journey around South America and north along the Pacific Coast. But then, in a dangerous and amazing feat of engineering, a 48-mile-long channel was dug through Panama, creating the worlds most famous shortcut: the Panama Canal!"--Amazon.com.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.9 1.0 168840.
Reading Counts RC 3-5 5.6 5 Quiz: 64282.
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Audience:
860L Lexile
OCLC Number:
ocn861478811
Availability:
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