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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Did you know that tractor-pulling vehicles can have as many as six engines in one tractor? These engines come from vehicles such as jets, speedboats, and tanks! The tractors need as much power as they can get to drag huge amounts of weight down the track. In fact, tractor pulling is considered the world's most powerful motor sport. Enter the Dirt and Destruction Sports Zone to learn about the history, mechanics, technology, and the famous drivers...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ruby Tuesday Books Ltd
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Monster Max is feeling very, very hungry. He eats one tractor, two trees, and three pizzas. Later, he gobbles down six socks and seven sausages. When Max starts to burp, his best friend Molly suspects things are about to get yucky!
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It is time for the town's annual parade. There are many floats to pull and all of Tractor Mac's friends are excited to pull the fantastic creations which leaves one problem: Which float will Tractor Mac get to pull? The last float left is Tractor Mac's last choice on earth ... but the bands begin, the marchers march and someone has to be Parade's Best!"--Publisher's description.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tractor Mac starting feeling slow one day and wasn't able to perform his work very well, so Farmer Bill decided to take Tractor Mac to see Dr. Lou at the tractor hospital. Tractor Mac was worried that he would be unable to keep working and that he would be sold for parts, but with the help of his animal friends and some other machines who stopped in for a tune-up, he learned that with the right care and proper maintenance, he could be made to work...
8) Otis
Author
Series
Otis the tractor volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a big new yellow tractor arrives, Otis the friendly little tractor is cast away behind the barn, but when trouble occurs Otis is the only one who can help.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"I am Not a Tractor! celebrates the courage, vision, and creativity of the farmworkers and community leaders who have transformed one of the worst agricultural situation in the United States into one of the best. Susan Marquis highlights past abuses workers suffered in Florida's tomato fields: toxic pesticide exposure, beatings, sexual assault, rampant wage theft, and even, astonishingly, modern-day slavery. Marquis unveils how, even without new legislation,...
12) Raising Cubby: a father and son's adventures with Asperger's, trains, tractors, and high explosives
Author
Language
English
Description
"The slyly funny, sweetly moving memoir of an unconventional dad's relationship with his equally offbeat son--complete with fast cars, tall tales, homemade explosives, and a whole lot of fun and trouble. Misfit, truant, delinquent, John Robison was never a model child, and he wasn't a model dad either. Diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome at the age of forty, he approached fatherhood as a series of logic puzzles and practical jokes. When his son, Cubby,...
13) The toy farmer
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A toy farmer on a tractor that Jed finds in the attic transforms his bedroom into a real farm, where a vine grows and produces one enormous pumpkin.
15) Rust belt femme
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Raechel Anne Jolie's early life in a working-class Cleveland exurb was full of race cars, Budweiser-drinking men covered in car grease, and the women who loved them. After her father came home from his third-shift job, took the garbage out to the curb and was hit by a drunk driver, her life changed. Raechel and her mother struggled for money: they were evicted, went days without utilities, and took their trauma out on one another. Raechel escaped...
17) Total tractor!
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Kids who like trucks and tractors will love Total Tractor! a fun, colorful guide to farm machines, tractors, and other large things that go. Younger readers and even pre-readers have lots to explore in Total Tractor! thanks to detailed photography of a huge variety of tractors, from cool classics to gleaming modern machines. The driver's-eye view lets your child peek inside the tractors.
Author
Publisher
Nosy Crow, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Follow the holes to read the story in this interactive farmyard adventure! Little ones will love finding the holes with their fingers, peeping through and turning the page to see what they become. With a gentle rhyming text encouraging children to say what they can spy in every scene, this is a journey through a farm to visit time and time again.
Author
Publisher
NorthSouth Books
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tony loves his hand-me-down tractor until he sees his neighbor with a fancy new one, but when his parents refuse to buy him a new one even after he crashes the old, Tony realizes how much his old friend means to him.
20) Stories
Author
Series
Library of America volume 282
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Writing with equal insight about New York City, Hollywood, and the small-town Pennsylvania world where he grew up, John O'Hara cultivated an unsentimental and often unsparing realism, aiming, he said, 'to record the way people talked and thought and felt... with complete honesty.' Praised by his contemporaries including Ernest Hemingway and Dorothy Parker, he wrote about sex, drinking, and social class with a frankness ahead of its time. The fiction...