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1) Train
Author
Series
Eyewitness books ; 39
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A picture-packed guide to the fascinating story of trains and how they have transformed our world. Discover how the vision of George Stephenson, the "father of the railroad," materialized into an age of steam around the world. Study the cut-out of a locomotive to understand how the movement of the piston turns the wheels. Learn how the American railroad contributed to the development and progress in the US and facilitated the spread of population...
6) Trains
Author
Language
English
Description
Explores various trains and their uses, from steam locomotives to magnetic levitation trains, and includes Internet sites to visit that enhance the learning process.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While traveling on the train to San Francisco with his cousin Olivia's owl, Nate the Great and his dog Sludge must use all of their detective skills when the owl suddenly disappears.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Celebrate the 90th anniversary of The Little Engine That Could with this all-time classic reillustrated by Caldecott Award-winning artist Dan Santat!
"The kindness and determination of the Little Blue Engine have inspired millions of children around the world since the story was first published in 1930. Cherished by readers for ninety years, The Little Engine That Could is a classic tale of a little engine that, despite her size, triumphantly pulls...
10) The spy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In 1908, a brilliant American battleship gun designer dies in a sensational apparent suicide. The man's grief-stricken daughter turns to the legendary Van Dorn Detective Agency to clear her father's name. Van Dorn puts his chief investigator on the case, and Isaac Bell soon realizes that the clues point not to suicide but to murder.
11) Unstoppable
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A runaway train, transporting deadly, toxic chemicals, is barreling down on Scranton, Pennsylvania, and only two men can stop it: a veteran engineer and a young conductor. Thousands of lives hang in the balance as these ordinary heroes attempt to chase down one million tons of hurtling steel and prevent an epic disaster.
12) The wrecker
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Detective Isaac Bell travels the early-twentieth-century American railways, driven by a sense of justice and a determination to stop a new mastermind reigning terror on a crucial express line in this #1 New York Times-bestselling series.
A year of financial panic and labor unrest, 1907 sees train wrecks, fires, and explosions sabotage the Southern Pacific Railroad’s Cascades express line. Desperate for help the railroad...
A year of financial panic and labor unrest, 1907 sees train wrecks, fires, and explosions sabotage the Southern Pacific Railroad’s Cascades express line. Desperate for help the railroad...
13) Trains
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the different cars that make up a train, including those for different kinds of freight and those used by passengers, and explains how trains change directions.
17) Trains
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Presents different kinds of trains, including steam trains, diesel locomotives, and electric monorails, and discusses how they perform various jobs from carrying cargo to moving people.
Author
Language
English
Description
"The American West in the early 1960s appears to be a pastoral paradise: golden wheat fields, mist-filled canyons, frolicking animals. Aspiring novelist Aaron Holland Broussard has observed it from the open door of a boxcar, riding the rails for both inspiration and odd jobs. Jumping off in Denver, he finds work on a farm and meets Joanne McDuffy, an articulate and fierce college student and gifted painter. Their soul connection is immediate, but...
19) Trains go
Author
Language
English
Description
The big steam train goes, "CHUGGA chugga chugga CHUGGA chugga chugga CHOO CHOOOOOOO!" The diesel train goes, "zooosh zooosh ZOOOOOOOOSH ding ding ding!" The American goes, "clang clang clang TOOT TOOT!" All aboard! Take a trip on eight noisy trains as they huff, puff, and toot-toot their way through this lively book! Perfect for the young train enthusiast.