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Inside Build it! Trains, you'll find a range of creative models to put together, created using the LEGO Classic sets 10693 and 10695, or bricks that LEGO® obsessives may already have at home. Each book in this interactive series contains 3-5 "dioramas" featuring a diverse range of models. Full color, step-by-step diagrams guide you through the process, enhancing the fun.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Young readers will love this exciting, in-depth yet accessible look at trains, including how they work, the special equipment they need, and how they tote thousands of tons of cargo down the tracks"--Provided by publisher.
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Railroad accident report volume NTSB/RAR-07/01
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National Transportation Safety Board
Pub. Date
[2007]
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English
64) I'm fast!
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English
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A freight train and an automobile race each other on the way to Chicago.
65) Trains
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"This photo-illustrated book for early readers describes the many types of train cars pulled by a freight train and what they are built to carry"--
66) Going by train
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Weekly Reader Early Learning Library
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
67) Train
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Board a commuter train in New York, then follow the journey west and see the stations, the scenery, the different types of trains, and all the people who travel and work on the railroad system.
68) Trains
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Simple text and supportive full-color photographs introduce young readers to trains. Intended for kindergarten through third grade"--Provided by publisher.
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"Orphans Gig and Rye Dolan don't have a penny to their names. The brothers work grueling, odd jobs each day just to secure a meal, and spend nights sleeping wherever they can with other day laborers. Twenty-three-year-old Gig is a passionate union man, fighting for fair pay and calling out the corrupt employers who exploit the working class. Eager to emulate his older brother, Rye follows suit, though he can't quite muster Gig's passion for the cause....
70) Mighty trains
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Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Book introduces the reader to fast trains"--
71) Trains
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Choo choo! The train is here! A freight train carries coal. A commuter train carries many workers. Don't blink! You might miss the bullet train zooming by. Give beginning readers a captivating close-up look at train parts and types.
72) Train song
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Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2000
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English
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A young boy watches a freight train go by on its daily run.
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"Three years ago, a collision between a fast-moving freight train and a school bus full of kids led to devastation and grief on an unimaginable scale. But a fresh clue leads San Antonio police detective Amara Alvarez to the unlikely conclusion that one of the children may still be alive. If she's correct, everything law enforcement believes about the accident is a lie. With time running out, Amara must convince others--and herself--that despite all...
74) The train jumper
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Jumping freight trains during the Great Depression leads fourteen-year-old Collie to a friendship with men and boys on their way to "somewhere else."
75) Train
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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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...
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2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 37
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English
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In a future so real and near it might be now, something happens when women go to sleep: they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If they are awakened, if the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed or violated, the women become feral and spectacularly violent. And while they sleep they go to another place, a better place, where harmony prevails and conflict is rare. One woman, the mysterious "Eve Black," is immune to the blessing or curse of...
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"It's about the journey, not the destination. All Aboard--first published in 1995, and here revised and updated--is much more than a mile-by-mile scenery guide for train travelers. Written for both veteran train travelers and those considering their first rail journey, it will keep any trip on track with its insightful travel trips and information about how North American railroads operate. All Aboard presents how and why the first railroads came...
79) The corrections
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English
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Winner of the 2001 National Book Award for Fiction
Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award
An American Library Association Notable Book
Jonathan Franzen's third novel, The Corrections, is a great work of art and a grandly entertaining overture to our new century: a bold, comic, tragic, deeply moving family drama that stretches from the Midwest at mid-century to Wall Street and Eastern Europe in
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Elizabeth Cotten was only a little girl when she picked up a guitar for the first time. It wasn't hers (it was her big brother's), and it wasn't strung right for her (she was left-handed). But she flipped that guitar upside down and backwards and taught herself how to play it anyway. By age eleven, she'd written "Freight Train," one of the most famous folk songs of the twentieth century. And by the end of her life, people everywhere from the sunny...