Building the Empire State Building : an interactive engineering adventure / by Allison Lassieur.
Material type:
TextSeries: You choose books. Interactive engineering adventure.Publisher: North Mankato, Minnesota : Capstone Press, [2015]Description: 112 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781491404003 (library binding)
- 1491404000 (library binding)
- 9781491404058 (pbk.)
- 1491404051 (pbk.)
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's NonFiction | 974.71 L347 | Available | 33111008090173 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The Roaring 20s are in high gear, and so is skyscraper fever in New York City. People are fascinated by the plans to build the Empire State Building the worlds tallest building yet. Will you: Be an eager young assistant at the architecture firm Shreve, Lamb, and Harmon, the firm designing the Empire State Building? Join the project as a construction worker high atop the building as it rises above the city? Work as a water boy who carries water to the thirsty construction workers on the project? Experience situations taken from real life. YOU CHOOSE what you'll do next. The choices you make will either lead you and the project to success or to failure.
"Explores various perspectives on the process of building the Empire State Building. The reader's choices reveal the historical details"-- Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Race to the sky -- A big deal -- Working in the sky -- The Empire State takes shape -- Tallest in the world.