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3) Cars
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Brief text and photographs explain what cars are, describe different types of cars, and examine how they developed and how they are used.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Transportation dominates our daily existence. Thousands, even millions, of miles are embedded in everything we do and touch. We live in a door-to-door universe that works so well most Americans are scarcely aware of it. The grand ballet in which we move ourselves and our stuff is equivalent to building the Great Pyramid, the Hoover Dam, and the Empire State Building all in a day. Every day. And yet, in the one highly visible part of the transportation...
Author
Series
Gunnie Rose ; 2
Language
English
Description
"Lizbeth Rose is hired onto a new crew for a seemingly easy protection job, transporting a crate into Dixie, just about the last part of the former United States of America she wants to visit. But what seemed like a straight-forward job turns into a massacre as the crate is stolen. Up against a wall in Dixie, where social norms have stepped back into the last century, Lizbeth has to go undercover with an old friend to retrieve the crate as what's...
Author
Publisher
Times Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"Taras Grescoe rides the rails all over the world and makes an elegant and impassioned case for the imminent end of car culture and the coming transportation revolution. "I am proud to call myself a straphanger," writes Taras Grescoe. The perception of public transportation in America is often unflattering--a squalid last resort for those with one too many drunk-driving charges, too poor to afford insurance, or too decrepit to get behind the wheel...
Author
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
1952.
Language
English
Description
Originally published by UNC Press in 1952, The Railroads of the Confederacy tells the story of the first use of railroads on a major scale in a major war. Robert Black presents a complex and fascinating tale, with the railroads of the American South playing the part of tragic hero in the Civil War: at first vigorous though immature; then overloaded, driven unmercifully, starved for iron; and eventually worn out--struggling on to inevitable destruction...
15) Transportation
Author
Series
Publisher
Raintree
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This book uses a selection of fun true or false questions to get readers thinking all about cars, boats, airplanes, trains, and more. Readers turn the page to reveal the answer to each question and learn fascinating transportation facts.
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
How do you get around your neighborhood? From buses and trains to cars and by foot, people travel in many different ways. Through full-color photos and simple, easy-to-follow text, this nonfiction book introduces emergent readers to forms of transportation. All Pebble Plus books align with national and state standards and are designed to help new readers read independently, making them the perfect choice for every child.
17) Freight train
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The train rolls along slowly at first, slowly enough to count the cars, to name their colors, and identify their functions, until it starts to pick up speed."--
Author
Series
Publisher
Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Congested city streets are noisy and thick with cars and trucks, while pedestrians and cyclists are squeezed to the dangerous edges--but does it have to be this way? Imagine a city where we aren't stuck in cars, where clean air makes it easier to breathe, and where transit is easy to access--and on time. Imagine a city where streets are for people! This fun, accessible and ultimately hopeful book explores sustainable transportation around the globe,...
20) Transportation
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Pub
Language
English
Description
Presents a history of transportation from ancient humans using muscle to traveling in space and discusses different modes of transportation.