What Is the Panama Canal? (What Was?)

by Janet B Pascal (Author) Tim Foley (Illustrator)

Reading Level: 4th − 5th Grade
Series: What Was?
"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.
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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.
Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9780448478999
Lexile Measure
860
Guided Reading Level
R
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Publication date
July 17, 2014
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

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