Describes different kinds of bridges: how they are built and how they are used.

"Carefully leveled text and engaging full-color photos introduce early fluent readers to the world's most amazing bridges while explaining the engineering behind their creation. Includes activity, glossary, and index."

As the Lego city builders hurry to complete a new bridge, they face an unusual problem when a bank robber tries to hide in their giant crane.

"Relevant images match informative text in this introduction to bridges. Intended for students in kindergarten through third grade"--

"The Golden Gate Bridge is the most famous bridge in the world. It is also, not entirely coincidentally, the world's only bright-orange bridge. But it wasn't supposed to be that way. In this book, fellow bridge-lovers Dave Eggers and Tucker Nichols tell the story of how it happened - how a bridge that some people wanted to be red and white, and some people wanted to be yellow and black, and most people wanted simply to be gray, instead became, thanks...

A little lighthouse on the Hudson River regains its pride when it finds out that it is still useful and has an important job to do.

"Little Green only knows one word: 'Go!' It's the perfect thing to get the construction site moving, but how will they stop?"--

For months six-year-old Ruby Bridges must confront the hostility of white parents when she becomes the first African American girl to integrate Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in 1960.

Loosely adapted from The Three Billy Goats Gruff, Ruby and her brothers want to cross a bridge to pick blueberries, but it is guarded by the bully Santiago--the boys manage to trick him, but clever Ruby takes a different tack, builds her own bridge, and turns Santiago into an ally and friend.

Robert and his friend Charlie are proud of their fathers, who are working on the construction of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.