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What Is the Panama Canal? (What Was?)

What Is the Panama Canal?
(What Was?)

Author

Illustrator

Tim Foley

Publication Date

July 17, 2014

Genre / Grade Band

Non-fiction / 4^th − 5^th

Language

English

What Is the Panama Canal? (What Was?)

Paperback

Description

"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.

Publication date

July 17, 2014

Genre

Non-fiction

ISBN-13

9780448478999

Lexile Measure

860

Guided Reading Level

R

Publisher

Penguin Workshop

Series

What Was?

BISAC categories

JNF025210 - Juvenile Nonfiction | History | United States/20th Century
JNF025060 - Juvenile Nonfiction | History | Central & South America
JNF061000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Technology | General

Library of Congress categories

History
Design and construction
Panama Canal (Panama)
Canals
Panama
Canal Zone

Janet Pascal lives in New York, New York. John O'Brien lives in Delaran, New Jersey. Nancy Harrison lives in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

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