| Building the Golden Gate Bridge: An Interactive Engineering Adventure Contributor(s): Hoena, Blake (Author) |
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ISBN: 1491403985 ISBN-13: 9781491403983 Publisher: Capstone Press OUR PRICE: $27.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2014 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Nonfiction | Readers - Chapter Books - Juvenile Nonfiction | Architecture - Juvenile Nonfiction | People & Places - United States |
| Dewey: 624.230 |
| LCCN: 2013047699 |
| Lexile Measure: 870 |
| Series: You Choose: Engineering Marvels |
| Physical Information: 0.47" H x 5.81" W x 7.86" (0.61 lbs) 112 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Hi Interest/Low Vocabulary |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: People living in San Francisco during the 1920s and 1930s are fascinated by the project to build the Golden Gate Bridge the worlds longest suspension bridge yet. Will you: Be a designer of the bridge, working to solve the many challenges created by such an enormous project? Work as a crewmember, accepting the dangers of laboring hundreds of feet in the air above the cold, swirling currents of San Francisco Bay? Experience situations taken from real life. YOU CHOOSE what you'll do next. The choices you make will either lead you to success or to failure. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hoena, Blake: - Blake A. Hoena grew up in central Wisconsin, where he wrote stories about robots conquering the moon and trolls lumbering around the woods behind his parents house. He now lives in Minnesota and continues to write about fun things like space aliens and superheroes. Blake has written more than fifty chapter books and graphic novels for children. |