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Product Details
Margaret K. McElderry Books, May 2002
Hardcover, 40 pages
ISBN-10: 0689839006
ISBN-13: 9780689839009
Grades: K - 3
Awards and Nominations
- Children's Crown Gallery Award (also Lamplighter Award-same award)
Description
What is America?
It is fifty states from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific Ocean and beyond. It is a flag of stars and stripes. It is farmers, miners, factory workers, bakers, and bankers. It is Niagara Falls and the Grand Canyon, swamps and desert.
It is the stories of all of us, told together.
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