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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"A bicycle-like device with a donut-shaped frame. Combination stilts and pogo sticks. Your own personal jetpack. What do these things have in common? They're all actual vehicles. Read about a variety of strange forms of transportation in this fun and fascinating book"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Built to explore Mars, Resilience begins to develop human-like feelings as he learns from the NASA scientists who assembled him, and as he blasts off and explores Mars, Resilience must overcome different obstacles as he explores the red planet.
4) Tow trucks
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Series
Lexile measure
490L
Language
English
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Description
"Whizz! A tow truck pulls a car out of a ditch! Find out how different kinds of tow trucks work and what they are used for. Additional features to aid comprehension include a table of contents, informative sidebars and captions, an activity, critical-thinking questions, sources for further research, a phonetic glossary, an index, and an introduction to the author."--
6) Police cars
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Series
Lexile measure
280L
Language
English
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Description
"Developed by literacy experts and educators for students in PreK through grade two, this book introduces beginning readers to police cars through simple, predictable text and related photos"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 520L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Buster is a sweet little garbage truck. He can't wait to grow up to be a big truck, just like his father. Buster practices driving and lifting and beeping with his friend, Kitty. There's one small problem. Loud noises frighten Buster. When his father takes him to the truck yard to meet the other vehicles, their air-horn blasts and roaring engines send Buster skidding away to hide. He wants to be big and brave, but how can he work with Daddy and his...
10) Autonomy
Language
English
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Acclaimed author, Malcolm Gladwell, leads this feature documentary about the emerging technology of self-driving vehicles and the big questions they raise: what is control and who do we become as we relinquish it to machines? Official Selection at the **SXSW Film Festival** and **Mill Valley Film Festival**.
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Language
English
Description
The author's grandfathers were both employed by the pre-war motor industry. His singer father, John Hanson, would test John's knowledge of car makes on the long journeys between theatres. He has seen UK car numbers increase tenfold in his lifetime and this is a personal account of his love of classic cars before their success leads to their demise.
The motor car took him around Australia; ending up in Darwin 12 months after cyclone Tracy. He explored...
12) Truck stuck
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Language
English
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Illustrations and simple rhyming text tell the story of a big truck that gets stuck under a bridge.
Author
Series
Genius Files volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
On a cross-country vacation with their parents, twins Coke and Pepsi, soon to be thirteen, fend off strange assassins as they try to come to terms with their being part of a top-secret government organization known as The Genius Files.
15) Supertruck
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
"When the city is hit by a colossal snowstorm, only one superhero can save the day. But who is this mysterious hero, and why does he disappear once his job is done?"--
16) Look both ways
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Language
English
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"The media have descended on Garrett Island, a small, isolated community that is the setting of a visionary experiment. All the residents’ cars were sent to the mainland and for the past month the islanders have been “driving” the Arrival, a revolutionary autonomous vehicle. With a simple voice command, an Arrival will take you wherever you want to go and, because the fleet is networked and aware of one another, car travel is now 100% safe....
17) Robots & rovers
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Learn about the robots and rovers that are used in space exploratinon.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Who flies rescue helicopters? What does the inside of a rescue helicopter look like? Learn all about these important machines in this book. The huge wheels, powerful engines, and loud noises of working machines seem to entrance children for hours. Now young students can pore over color photos as they learn about their favorite machines--inside and out. Each book builds vocabulary as it describes in simple language the basics of a machine: what it...
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