Empire State Building

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The Roaring '20s are in high gear and so is skyscraper fever in New York City. People are fascinated by the plans to build the Empire State Building - the world's tallest building yet. Will you
Be an eager young assistant at the architecture firm Shreve Lamb and Harmon the firm designing the Empire State Building
Join the project as a construction worker high atop the building as it rises above the city
Work as a water boy who carries water to the thirsty construction workers on the project
Everything in this book happened to real people. And You Choose what you do next. The choices you make either lead you and the project to success - or to failure.

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These "Choose Your Own Adventure"-style books invite readers to assume roles as architects and builders of sites that set historical records in their magnitude. . . .these will best serve as supplemental material for classroom units dealing with famous structures.-- "School Library Journal"

Author Bio

Allison Lassieur has never had pop-star dreams, but she once sang in a choir that went on a multi-state tour on the way to Walt Disney World. Today she's an award-winning author of more than 150 history and non-fiction books about everything from Ancient Rome to the International Space Station. Her books have received several Kirkus starred reviews and Booklist recommendations, and her historical novel Journey to a Promised Land was awarded the 2020 Kansas Library Association Notable Book Award, and Library of Congress Great Reads Book selection. Allison lives in upstate New York with her husband, daughter, a scruffy, loveable mutt named Jingle Jack, and more books than she can count.