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Author
Series
Publisher
Barefoot Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Explore the stories of fifteen incredible landmarks, from Angkor Wat to Stonehenge to the Colosseum, in this comprehensive illustrated guide. Readers will get to know the people who built these places of wonder, the best ways to visit them and their mysteries that still puzzle historians today"--
3) Capital
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Provides a history of Washington, D.C., focusing on the National Mall, its monuments and surrounding buildings.
6) Rushmore
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes how this patriotic shrine and tourist attraction was conceived, designed, and created by the dedicated artist Gutzon Borglum.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"America's most iconic national symbol was a gift from France to the United States--provided America raised the money for the pedestal on which it was to stand. Urged on by the publisher Joseph Pulitzer, it was raised, largely with the help of children, in the first example of a crowd sourced fund-raising campaign. This book tells the story of the best gift ever: how it was designed, created, transported, and then finally erected on its pedestal in...
Author
Publisher
Tilbury House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This is the story of how a farmboy became America's foremost sculptor. After failing at academics, Dan was working the family farm when he idly carved a turnip into a frog and discovered what he was meant to do. Sweeney's swift prose and Fields's evocative illustrations capture the single-minded determination with which Dan taught himself to sculpt and launched his career with the famous Minuteman Statue in his hometown of Concord, Massachusetts....
11) General management plan, environmental assessment: draft : Effigy Mounds National Monument, Iowa
Publisher
U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
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