• What Is the Panama Canal? (What Was?)

What Is the Panama Canal?
(What Was?)

Illustrator
Tim Foley
Publication Date
July 17, 2014
Genre / Grade Band
Non-fiction /  4th − 5th
Language
English
What Is the Panama Canal? (What Was?)

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 B Pascal
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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