For August, running into a long-ago friend sets in motion resonant memories and transports her to a time and a place she thought she had mislaid: 1970s Brooklyn, where friendship was everything. August, Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi shared confidences as they ambled their neighborhood streets, a place where the girls believed that they were amazingly beautiful, brilliantly talented, with a future that belonged to them. But beneath the hopeful promise there...

"Discusses the history, function, and workings of tractors"--Provided by publisher.

Contains a collection of jokes related to transportation.

The discoveries and inventions of today are poised to change the way you live in the near future. You might not think about it, but how people and things get from one place to another has changed greatly over the years. And, more innovation is on the way. How will you get where you need to go in the future? And who will be driving-or flying? Find out in Flying Cars and Other Transportation Tech!

Follows the progress of school buses as they take children to school and bring them home again.

"Deputy U.S. Marshal Casey Sloane has worked at the St. Louis Marshals office for two years and is given a routine assignment to help transport a reporter to D.C. to testify before a grand jury. Valerie, the reporter, was writing a story about an up-and-coming environmentalist who suddenly disappeared and, she later discovered, whose backers purportedly have ties to a terrorist. When the seemingly ordinary assignment suddenly takes a shocking turn,...

Features maps and information about the countries, geography, ecology, population, customs, transportation, and economy of Africa.

Rhyming text and illustrations describe different kinds of cars, including fast cars, police cars, taxis, and convertibles.

This time the mysterious box transports the golden retriever Ranger back to the shipyards of Belfast in 1912, where a ship is being prepared for her maiden voyage, and when he saves young Patrick Murphy from being crushed by falling boards, Ranger expects to be transported home; when he is not, he knows that somehow his job is not finished--but then, Ranger has never heard of the Titanic, and knows nothing of the fate that awaits Patrick, and all...

Nora Lopez is seventeen during the summer of 1977, when New York is besieged by arson, a massive blackout, and a serial killer named Son of Sam. Meg Medina transports us to a time when tempers and temperatures ran high to share the story of a young woman who discovers that the greatest dangers are often closer than we like to admit.