To Walk the Sky: How Iroquois Steelworkers Helped Build Towering Cities

To Walk the Sky: How Iroquois Steelworkers Helped Build Towering CitiesLook to the sky! High above the ground, generation after generation, Native workers called skywalkers have sculpted city skylines, balancing on narrow beams, facing down terrifying heights and heartbreaking loss. These skywalkers who dared to touch the heavens have built a legacy of landmarks all over the North American continent and even today, there are Native Americans still climbing up among the clouds, brave enough to walk the sky. With impactful

Look to the sky!

High above the ground, generation after generation, Native workers called skywalkers have sculpted city skylines, balancing on narrow beams, facing down terrifying heights and heartbreaking loss. These skywalkers who dared to touch the heavens have built a legacy of landmarks all over the North American continent--and even today, there are Native Americans still climbing up among the clouds, brave enough to walk the sky.

With impactful and illuminating prose, Patricia Morris Buckley (Mohawk) tells the soaring story of the remarkable skywalkers, whose bravery and tragedies are warmly captured in moving watercolors by award-winning artist E. B. Lewis (Lenni-Lenape).

Author: Patricia Morris Buckley
Publisher: Heartdrum
Published: 01/28/2025
Pages: 40
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 11.40h x 8.60w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780063046979
Audience: Ages 9-12

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.6
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 553929 / To Walk the Sky: How Iroquois Steelworkers Helped Build Towering Cities


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/28/2024
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 12/01/2024
Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2024
Booklist 12/01/2024 pg. 124
School Library Journal 12/30/2024 pg. 1
BookPage 02/01/2025

About the Author
Buckley, Patricia Morris: -

Patricia Morris Buckley (Kahnawá ke Mohawk) is the regional advisor emeritus for SCBWI California: San Diego and taught writing for children for the University of San Diego Extended Studies. A newspaper reporter and editor for many years, she followed her passion for children's literature to become an elementary school librarian. She is the author of the Step into Reading book First Woman Cherokee Chief: Wilma Pearl Mankiller.

Lewis, E. B.: -

E. B. Lewis, award-winning illustrator and fine artist, has illustrated more than seventy-five books for children, including the Caldecott Honor winner Coming on Home Soon. He won the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award for Talkin' About Bessie and has earned the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Award four times. After graduating from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Lewis taught art in public schools for twelve years. He now teaches at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Visit eblewis.com.