Building the Golden Gate Bridge: An Interactive Engineering Adventure

by Blake Hoena, Angie Kaelberer (Contributor)

People living in San Francisco during the 1920s and 1930s are fascinated by the project to build the Golden Gate Bridge the worlds longest suspension bridge yet. Will you: Be a designer of the bridge, working to solve the many challenges created by such an enormous project? Work as a crewmember, accepting the dangers of laboring hundreds of feet in the air above the cold, swirling currents of San Francisco Bay? Experience situations taken from real life. YOU CHOOSE what you'll do next. The choices you make will either lead you to success or to failure.

Genres: Childrens

113 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 1, 2014

About the author

Blake A. Hoena grew up in central Wisconsin, where, in his youth, he wrote stories about robots conquering the Moon and trolls lumbering around in the woods behind his parents house, and the fact that the trolls were hunting for little boys had nothing to do with Blake’s pesky brothers. Later, he moved to Minnesota to pursue a Masters of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from Minnesota State University, Mankato.

Since graduating, Blake has written more than thirty books for children, including retellings of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and the Perseus and Medusa myth. Most recently, he’s working on a series of graphic novels about two space alien brothers, Eek and Ack, who are determined to conquer our big blue home.

--from the author's website

Reviews

[Valerie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good little “choose your own path” book, that teaches several interesting things about the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge.

[Deborah Martinez · Rating 4 out of 5]

Why am I reading children's books you may wonder? They are quick and easy and teach me something new, I remember studying about the Golden Gate Bridge in Elementary School, but that is about all, besides remembering it is massive.

These "you choose books" bring back good childhood memories where you get to choose the ending, so it makes the book interactive, and I have always thought that was fun!

I am also fascinated by engineering, unfortunately not strong enough in my math or science skills that I could not become one myself, but to read about such things, as the Golden Gate Bridge and to hear the logic behind the Engineers that worked on it fascinates me and boggles my mind all at the same time.

If you have a kid or a student who is in elementary school, I would recommend this book!