What Is the Panama Canal? (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780448478999)

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

Author: Janet B. Pascal, Who Hq
ISBN-10: 0448478994
ISBN-13: 9780448478999
Publisher: Penguin Workshop
Language: English
Published: 07/17/2014
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.30w x 0.40d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.9
Point Value: 1
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 168840 / What Is the Panama Canal?