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5) Pyramids
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
©1994
Language
English
Description
Using acetate overlays, children can travel back to ancient Egypt to visit a rock quarry, where they can see huge stone blocks being cut and transported to where a pyramid is being built!
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A novel about the construction of the Panama Canal, following the intersecting lives of the local families fighting to protect their homeland, the West Indian laborers recruited to dig the waterway, and the white Americans who gained profit and glory for themselves"--
It is said that the canal will be the greatest feat of engineering in history. But first, it must be built. For Francisco, a local fisherman who resents the foreign powers clamoring...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Beatrice Alexander's family ran a doll hospital in their home in New York's Lower East Side, where she grew to love fixing and making dolls. Beatrice dreamed of becoming an artist, but her family couldn't afford to send her to sculpting school. She never stopped dreaming, and when World War I broke out, she came up with the idea to make dolls modeled after nurses to support the war effort and help keep children happy -- but they needed to be unbreakable...