Title Towering homes / by Gerry Bailey ; Illustrated by Moreno Chiacchiera, Michelle Todd, and Joelle Dreidemy.

Publication Info.	St. Catharines, ON ; New York, New York : Crabtree Publishing Company, 2014.
	©2013

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Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Children's Department	J 728 BAILEY	Check Shelf

Description	32 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Series	Young architect
	Young architect.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	A pile of homes -- Stories -- Architect's words : elevator, escalator, stairs, fire escape -- Glass and steel -- Architect's words : foundations -- Architect's tools : scale model -- Layer on top of layer -- Cave homes -- Rising to a point -- Raising the bridge -- Perched on the rocks -- On a tilt -- Architect's tools : plumb line -- Raised on stilts -- Stilts in water.
Summary	"Ideal for students living in an urban area, colorful illustrations and humorous characters outline the steps needed to build towering homes. Building big and building up, students learn about problems and solutions encountered by engineers and architects."-- Provided by publisher.
Study Program	AR 5.2 0.5 part.
Subject	Tall buildings -- Juvenile literature.
	Architecture, Domestic -- Juvenile literature.
	Tall buildings.
	Architecture, Domestic.
	JUVENILE NONFICTION -- Architecture.
	Architecture, Domestic. (OCoLC)fst00813666
	Tall buildings. (OCoLC)fst01142303
	Tall buildings.
	Domestic architecture.
Genre/Form	Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
Added Author	Chiacchiera, Moreno, illustrator.
Other Form:	Bailey, Gerry, 1945- Towering homes. Bailey, Gerry, 1945- Young architect Young architect (CaOONL)20139040722
ISBN	9780778702894 (reinforced library binding)
	0778702898 (reinforced library binding)
	9780778702993 (pbk.)
	0778702995 (pbk.)
	9781427112781 (electronic pdf)
	9781427112743 (electronic html)
	9781489802415
	148980241X

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