John Severance's Skyscrapers: How America Grew Up

Severance, John, B. (2000). Skyscrapers: How America Grew Up. New York, NY, Holiday House. Skyscrapers are in the heart of Chicago and New York City. While technical inventions and innovations play the major role in the building of these structures, economic conditions and social forces cannot be ignored. Architects comply with the building codes and encounter problems as the skyscrapers change the cities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Short biographical information about the inventors complete the narrative stories. This is an informational/nonfiction book, because it focuses on facts and information (p. 272).
Although John Severance received NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for an Outstanding Nonfiction Literature for children, this