TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pascal,Janet B.
AU  - Foley,Tim
TI  - What is the Panama Canal? 
T2  - What was
SN  - 9780448478999 (pbk)
U1  - 972. 87/5 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House
KW  - Canals
KW  - Panama
KW  - Design and construction
KW  - History
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - Panama Canal (Panama)
N1  - Lexile not found; Hat is the Panama Canal? -- From the Atlantic to the Pacific -- A railroad built on corpses -- A canal? -- The French try their hand -- The United States steps in -- War! -- Killing mosquitoes -- A man with a plan -- Finishing the job -- Success! -- The Canal today
N2  - Before 1914, traveling from the East Coast to the West Coast meant going by land across the entire United States. To go by sea involved a long journey around South America and north along the Pacific Coast.

But then, in a dangerous and amazing feat of engineering, a 48-mile-long channel was dug through Panama, creating the world’s most famous shortcut: the Panama Canal!
ER  -