Book Description
Publication Date: August 12, 2004 | Age Level: 4 and up
A unique day-in-the-life look at a real girl named Kristen who works as an ironworkers apprentice on some of New York City's tallest buildings. Following Kristen around the construction site, readers will learn what tools the workers use, how they use them, and how they work as a team. With a fascinating variety of materials, labels, and photographs from an actual site where Kristen worked, Susan L. Roth has created a masterpiece of creative collage-and an eye-popping learning experience for readers of all ages.
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Format:Hardcover
My son loves this book-- it takes you all around a big building site with Kristin the iron worker apprentice. It has a nice rhythm, and lots of great but simple vocabulary-- like choker cables and spud wrenches.
This book is also written on two levels-- you can read the narrative, which is brief and sweet, or you can stop on each page and read the notes. The notes describe what exactly the "plumber upper" and the "deckers" are doing, and which tools they use.
AND- it was written by a woman no less.
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