"Kids will learn about different uses for canals with Engineer It! Canal Projects. They will discover how canals are built. Then, use clay, LEGOs, and more to build their own canals. Each project has color photos and easy-to-follow instructions. Young crafters will be budding engineers in no time! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Applied to STEM Concepts of Learning Principles."--Publisher's website.

Learn about the Panama Canal and how it was built.

"Carefully leveled text and vibrant photographs introduce early readers the science and engineering behind the Panama Canal. Includes infographics, an activity, glossary, and index"--

"Detective Isaac Bells wife has said that he is always in the wrong place at the right time. This is certainly the case when Bell thwarts the attempted assassination of a U.S. Senator shortly after meeting the man. This heroic rescue is just the start of the mystery for Bell, who suspects that the would-be assassins have a much larger and more dangerous agenda, one involving the nearly-constructed Panama Canal. While the senator supports the building...

In nineteenth-century England, ten-year-old Emma, accustomed to long working hours at the silk mill and the poverty and hunger of her sister's house, finds her life completely changed when she inadvertently gets a job on a canal boat carrying cargoes between several northern towns.