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"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,...
3) Delivery
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Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In this nearly wordless picture book, a grandmother uses every creative means of transportation necessary to deliver cookies to her grandson on his birthday.
5) On the go
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Publisher
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
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Discusses the ways in which people all over the world move from place to place, including walking, riding on animals, and traveling on wheels and water.
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English
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A fantastic introduction to a world many young people-and people in general-seldom consider: how transportation engineers help to ensure people and materials move smoothly throughout our complex world. Readers are introduced to real-world problems and their engineering solutions. Lively, informative, and age-accessible language is augmented with highlighted vocabulary terms, important points to think about, items to compare and contrast, and a final,...
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H.W. Wilson
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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The US transportation system is a complex national concern, closely tied to our nation's economy, defense, and national security. Paying for its construction and maintenance has become an even more complicated political issue in the early twenty-first century. This articles in this volume addresses these issues and how they affect the future viability of the nation's transportation routes.
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DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Get kids revved up and ready to read. Cars, Trains, Ships & Planes is a visual encyclopedia of every vehicle to zoom, sail, soar, float, or fly across the land, sea, and sky. Displaying more than 1,000 vehicles including classic cars, hybrids, race cars, sail boats, luxury cruise ships, BMX and dirt bikes, military tanks, steam locomotives, mountain trains, hot air balloons, fighter jets, International Space Station manned spacecraft and more, plus...
16) Cool cars
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Series
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Kingfisher
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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Rhyming text and illustrations describe different kinds of cars, including fast cars, police cars, taxis, and convertibles.
20) Smash! crash!
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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Best friends Jack Truck and Dump Truck Dan love to smash things but sometimes their antics get them into trouble. One day they meet Wrecking Crane Rosie. Are Jack and Dan's smashing days over?
Rev your engines for the launch of the highest-octane series around--Jon Scieszka's Trucktown for preschool/kindergartners--with more shapes, sizes, and formats than anyone could shake a bumper at.
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