Mackinac Bridge: The Story of the Five-Mile Poem (Tales of Young…

by Gloria Whelan

Series: Tales of Young Americans (Michigan, 1950s)

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This story is told in a solid story structure with a beginning, middle, and end. Therefore, it is a great book for retelling and summarizing.

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Although it will mean that their father can no longer make a living running a ferry boat, thirteen-year-old Mark and his brother Luke are excited about the building of a five-mile bridge across the Straits of Mackinac in Michigan in 1957.

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