Cyrus Field's Big Dream: The Daring Effort to Lay the First Transatlantic Telegraph Cable
by Mary Morton Cowan
A NSTA Best STEM Book
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- Grade
- 5-8
- Genre
- Biography
- Nonfiction
Year Published 2018
Word Count 39,815
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 980L
- ATOS Reading Level: 7.2
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 500640, 7 AR Points
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- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- History
- Science
- STEAM
- Subject Headings
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Historical
- Great Britain
- Field, Cyrus W
- Juvenile Nonfiction | History | United States - 19th Century
- Transatlantic cables
- Telegraph
- Young Adult Biography
- Biographies
- History
- United States
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Science & Technology
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Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2024
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