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1) Trucks
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hop in! This title will take you where you want to go. Early readers will gather basic information about trucks through simple, easy-to-read text. And they will love the colorful full-bleed photographs, bolded glossary terms, and More Facts section. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids is a division of ABDO.
Author
Series
Publisher
Jump!
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In this book, early fluent readers discover the amazing technology used to make transportation safe, while learning about how engineers work, challenges they face, and other professionals who help keep transportation safe. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they learn more about these engineering feats.--
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In a time when people believed flying was impossible, Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier proved that the sky wasn't the limit. When most thought horseback was the only way to race, Bertha and Karl Benz fired up their engines. From the invention of the bicycle and the passenger steam locomotive, to the first liquid-fuel propelled rocket and industrial robot, inventors across the world have redefined travel. Filled with informative sidebars and colorful...
Author
Series
People's Place booklet volume no. 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Accessible in style, Plain Buggies presents the most complete work on the transportation modes of the "plain people" published to date. Includes details on prices, styles, laws, stories. Why do 100,000 persons in North America refuse to drive cars for religious reasons? What are the main styles among the 90-some variations of their vehicles? What does a horse's face tell you about its personality? What about accidents, the law, and harassment? How...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Some people use wheelchairs to get to and from places. What does that mean? Using simple, engaging text and full-color photos, readers learn why someone would use a wheelchair and what daily life is like for someone who can't walk. This book includes a video, which launches via a 4D app."--
Publisher
TravelVideoStore.com
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Focuses on the history and development of passenger trains beginning with the British train and then moving onto the American scene. Includes developments in design, increased services, and reminiscence with railroad employees about their work and experiences.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"From the acclaimed author of Birdmen comes a revelatory new history of the birth of the automobile, an illuminating and entertaining true tale of invention, competition, and the visionaries, hustlers, and swindlers who came together to transform the world. In 1900, the Automobile Club of America sponsored the nation's first car show in New York's Madison Square Garden. The event was a spectacular success, attracting seventy exhibitors and nearly...
13) Dirt bikes
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Engaging images accompany information about dirt bikes. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 2 through 7"--
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Every major American city has a highway tearing through its center. Seventy years ago, planners sold these highways as progress, essential to our future prosperity. The automobile promised freedom, and highways were going to take us there. Instead, theydivided cities, displaced people from their homes, chained us to our cars, and locked us into a high-emissions future. And the more highways we built, the worse traffic got. Nowhere is this more visible...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young People
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of the African American woman and civil rights worker whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus led to a boycott which lasted more than a year in Montgomery, Alabama.
18) Trains chug
Author
Series
Publisher
Amicus Ink
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Trains clickity clack down the railroad tracks in this photographic board book for toddlers"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This richly comprehensive history by a self-proclaimed "low-brow" historian features more than 100 photographs and contemporary prints of America's railway system. Stewart H. Holbrook presents a dramatic, highly readable chronicle of the development of the backbone of the country's commerce and industry. Abounding in episodes of ingenuity and achievement, the growth of the railway system required constant improvements in techniques, devices, and machines,...
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