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English
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"She built a monument for all time. Then she was lost in its shadow. Emily Warren Roebling refuses to live conventionally--she knows who she is and what she wants, and she's determined to make change. But then her husband Wash asks the unthinkable: give up her dreams to make his possible. Emily's fight for women's suffrage is put on hold, and her life transformed when Wash, the Chief Engineer of the Brooklyn Bridge, is injured on the job. Untrained...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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It's summertime in Red Hook, Brooklyn, and June and Val take a raft out onto the bay at night to see what they can see. Only Val will survive, washed ashore; semi-conscious in the weeds. As Val contends with the shadow of her missing friend and a truth she buries deep inside, the people around her are pulled by family, love, betrayal, and hope.
3) Water Street
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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In the shadow of the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, eighth-graders and new neighbors Bird Mallon and Thomas Neary make some decisions about what they want to do with their lives.
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Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"On a warm spring day in 1883, a woman rode across the Brooklyn Bridge with a rooster on her lap. It was the first trip across an engineering marvel that had taken nearly fourteen years to construct. The woman's husband was the chief engineer, and he knew all about the dangerous new technique involved. The woman insisted she learn as well. When he fell ill mid-construction, her knowledge came in handy. She supervised every aspect of the project while...
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