In 1928, nine-year-old investigator Lottie and her friends try to save the British Museum from shuttering its doors by looking for a buried treasure in a secret tunnel beneath the museum, only to discover they must solve a series of puzzles to find the treasure as well as their way out of the maze of passageways.
"This original graphic novel imagines the lives of blue-collar workers involved in the real-life Lake Erie tunnel disaster of 1916 in Cleveland. Author Scott MacGregor and illustrator Gary Dumm tell the intersecting stories of a brilliant African American inventor, Ben Beltran (based on the real-life Garrett Morgan, Sr.), desperate immigrants tunneling beneath Lake Erie, and corrupt overseers who risk countless lives for profit"--Amazon.com.
the true story of an extraordinary escape beneath the Berlin Wall
Merriman, Helena
In a book based on the podcast series, a broadcast journalist tells the unbelievable true story of 22-year-old Joachim Rudolph, who, in 1961, set out to build an escape tunnel under the Berlin Wall and was faced with many obstacles before freeing 29 people.
Looks at how tunnels are designed, built, and improved with new technology. Includes audio, videos, activities, weblinks, slideshows, transparencies, maps, quizzes, and supplementary resources.
Explains the historical importance and science and technology of tunnels, and explores famous tunnels across the globe. Includes an engineering activity that gives readers the chance to apply their knowledge through hands-on construction.
"As construction begins on the Golden Apple Amusement Park, Aaron Peterson is becoming increasingly worried about his father. Working late nights in his study, Aaron's dad seems to be fraying at the edges, pushing, and sometimes breaking, the laws of engineering with his new schematics. And with the added pressure he's under to complete the park by this summer, Aaron can't help but feel his father's inventions are doomed to end in tragedy once again. But his fears over his father's work is complicated by a dark discovery: a network of tunnels running underneath the town of Raven Brooks. Where do they lead? And what dark secrets about his family's past will he uncover there?"--Provided by publisher.
"This book for elementary readers highlights the sequence of events from idea to a finished tunnel. Full-color photographs and a timeline support each step of the project's process, from the design and preparations to the construction and finishing details"--Provided by publisher.
