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Gr 3 Up—"Sometimes you have to fight for what you believe in, even if it's just a color." This extensive homage to one of the most famous landmarks in the world, the Golden Gate Bridge, is quirky yet pleasing. Unassuming text conveys a bit of history about the Bay area and its ultimate quest to create a passageway from the bay to the Pacific Ocean. Pap...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

An entertaining and informative two-pronged story of how San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge came to be and how it gained its distinctive, signature orange color. The engaging narrative voice will appeal to a broad audience. Kids may find it especially remarkable that by the time the bridge was being built, despite extensive planning, its color still had not been decided ("Isn't that a strange thing, that a very large group of adults would undertake a pr...Log In or Sign Up to Read More