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Author
Series
Publisher
AV² by Weigl
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Did you know that each face carved into Mount Rushmore is 60 feet (18.3 meters) tall? That is as tall as a six story building. Discover more fascinating facts in Mount Rushmore, an American Icons book. --
Author
Publisher
Cavendish Square Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
This iconic monument in South Dakota celebrates presidents who represent the founding, expansion, protection, and preservation of the United States. Carving the heads out of granite also represented a tremendous challenge to the workers and engineers who spent fourteen years laboring in harsh weather to finish the job. This book tells the story of this dangerous and daring project, from conception through completion.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
"It was world-famous sculptor Gutzon Borglum's dream to carve sixty-foot-high likenesses of four presidents on a granite cliff in South Dakota. Does that sound like a wacky idea? Many at the time thought so. Borglum faced a lot of opposition and problems at every turn; the blasting and carving carried out through the years of the Great Depression when funding for anything was hard to come by. Yet Mount Rushmore now draws almost three million visitors...
Author
Series
Publisher
Weekly Reader Early Learning
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the history and creation of South Dakota's Mount Rushmore National Memorial, where the images of four presidents are sculpted into the mountain.
Author
Publisher
Mason Crest Publishers
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discusses the history and sculpting of the images on South Dakota's Mount Rushmore, and provides facts about the four presidents represented there: Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt.
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
IG 790L
Language
English
Description
Presents a simple history of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial, from its initial conception and planning through the fourteen years it took to complete the work.
13) Mount Rushmore
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications Co
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
Describes the meaning, history, and creation of the stone monument to four American presidents carved into Mount Rushmore, South Dakota.
14) Mount Rushmore
Author
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
1997.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
Relates the conception and execution of the giant monument to four American Presidents carved upon Mount Rushmore.
15) Mount Rushmore
Author
Series
Publisher
Rourke Book
Pub. Date
1994.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
17) Mount Rushmore
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Relates how the Mount Rushmore National Memorial, known as "The Shrine of Democracy, " was conceived, designed, and created.
18) Mount Rushmore
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
290L
Language
English
Description
A brief introduction to the construction of the huge sculpture carved into Mt. Rushmore, South Dakota, and to the four presidents represented there: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1030L
Language
English
Description
Lincoln Borglum was the son of Gutzon Borglum, the man who dreamed up the idea of carving four presidents' faces into the rockface of Mount Rushmore. The younger Borglum was the man who actually completed the project, and this is his story.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
490L
Language
English
Description
When Catalina "Cat" Duran and her friends in the History Club arrive at Mount Rushmore on a school trip they find that someone is playing dangerous tricks and trying to drive people away from the park.
