This book is part of a book series called You Choose-Engineering Marvels .

This book has been graded for interest at 8-12 years. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read.

There are 448 pages in this book. This is a chapter book. Publishers market early chapter books at readers aged 6-10 years. This book was published 2014 by Capstone Press .

BLAKE HOENA has written numerous children's books, including two previous titles in this series: National Geographic Kids Everything Dinosaurs and National Geographic Kids Everything Mythology . Allison Lassieur once lived in Tennessee and traveled the path Hattie and her family might have followed from Nashville to the banks of the Mississippi River near Memphis. Today she lives in upstate New York and shares a 110-year-old house with her husband, her daughter, three dogs, two cats, and more history books than she can count. Steven Otfinoski has been writing for more than three decades. He is the author of Nineteenth-Century Writers in the American Profiles series, Great Black Writers, African Americans in the Performing Arts, Latinos in the Arts, and many other books for Facts On File and Chelsea House.