Secret Engineer: How Emily Roebling Built the Brooklyn Bridge
by Rachel Dougherty
On a warm spring day in 1883, a woman rode across the Brooklyn Bridge with... read more
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- PK-2
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- Nonfiction
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- Cultural Experience
- Women / Girls
Year Published 2019
Word Count 1,180
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 960L
- ATOS Reading Level: 5.5
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 504859, 0.5 AR Points
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- English Language Arts
- History
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- Science
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- Subject Headings
- Bridges
- Brooklyn Bridge (New York, N.Y.)--Juvenile literature
- Roebling, Emily Warren
- Roebling, Emily Warren, 1843-1903
- New York
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Women
- Bridges--New York (State)--New York--Design and construction--Juvenile literature
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Science & Technology
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- Roebling, Emily Warren, 1843-1903--Juvenile literature
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Technology | How Things Work/Are Made
- New York (State)
- Brooklyn Bridge (New York, N.Y.)
- Design and construction
- Juvenile Nonfiction | History | United States - 19th Century
- Bridges--New York (State)--New York--Design and construction
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