Pub Date: January 1, 2016
Dewey: 931
LCCN: 2015040834
Lexile Code: 0830
Features: Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index
Target Age Group: 08 to 10
Physical Info: 0.30" H x 8.90" L x 7.90" W ( 0.50 lbs) 32 pages
BISAC Categories:
Juvenile Nonfiction | Architecture | History | Asia | Places | Technology | How Things WorkAre Made
Series: Engineering Wonders
Description: "Explains the history behind andthe process of building the Great Wall of China"--
Brief description: Rebecca Stanborough spent her teenage years in a ramshackle community house with 21 people and two bathrooms. Now she lives and writes in St. Augustine, Florida, surrounded by alligators, island rats, and roseate spoonbills, none of whom has ever asked to share her bathroom.
Review Quotes: In a welcome change from the normal series approach, these titles place each featured structure into the context of its natural and cultural environments while discussing how it reflects the society that built it. Authors explain engineering concepts, challenges, and construction processes so clearly that readers will understand how engineers overcame seemingly impossible problems to design and build these magnificent structures. . . .Good choice to introduce landmark structures and the engineering that made them possible.-- "School Library Journal"