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What Is the Panama Canal?
Contributor(s): Pascal, Janet B. (Author), Who Hq (Author), Foley, Tim (Illustrator)

ISBN: 0448478994 ISBN-13: 9780448478999
Publisher: Penguin Workshop

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Binding Type: Paperback
Published: July 2014
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Additional Information

BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Nonfiction | History - Central & South America
- Juvenile Nonfiction | History - United States - 20th Century
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Technology - Machinery & Tools

Dewey: 972.875

LCCN: 2014017363

Age Level: 8-12

Grade Level: 3-7

Series: What Was...

Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.3" W x 7.6" L (0.30 lbs) 112 pages

Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1900-1919
- Chronological Period - 1851-1899
- Cultural Region - Latin America

Features: Bibliography, Ikids, Illustrated, Maps, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents

Accelerated Reader Info

Quiz #: 168840
Reading Level: 5.9 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 1.0

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Publisher 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 world's most famous shortcut: the Panama Canal

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