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The Story Of Buildings

ISBN-10: 0763669903
ISBN-13: 9780763669904
Author: Dillon, Patrick
Illustrated by: Biesty, Stephen
Interest Level: 3-7
Publisher: Candlewick Press

Publication Date: March 2014

Copyright: 2014

Page Count: 96

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Interest Level

Grades 3-7

Reading Level

Lexile: 1060L
Accelerated Reader Level: 7.4
Accelerated Reader Points: 4.0

Booksource Subjects

BISAC Subjects

JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / Symbols, Monuments, National Parks, etc

JUVENILE NONFICTION / Art / General

Description
Aspiring architects will be in their element! Explore this illustrated narrative history of buildings for young readers, an amazing construction in itself. We spend most of our lives in buildings. We make our homes in them. We go to school in them. We work in them. But why and how did people start making buildings? How did they learn to make them stronger, bigger, and more comfortable? Why did they start to decorate them in different ways? From the pyramid erected so that an Egyptian pharaoh would last forever to the dramatic, machine-like Pompidou Center designed by two young architects,