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21) Tow trucks
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"As long as there have been cars on the road, there have been mighty tow trucks to rescue them when they become broken down or damaged in accidents. Young readers will love learning about these helpful, interesting vehicles through the bright text and colorful photographs of this high-interest low-ATOS book. They'll learn the names of some parts of tow trucks as well as discover that different kinds of tow trucks are needed in different circumstances....
24) El transporte
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Blackbirch Press
Pub. Date
c2002
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Español
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A brief introduction to some of the varying modes of transportation used in different countries, from camels in the Egyptian desert to gondolas on the canals in Venice, Italy.
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English
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Race through the alphabet in this action-packed A to Z of things that go, from bestselling children's book author Roger Priddy.
From ambulances and diggers to yachts and zooming rockets, Dig Dig Digging ABC is a bright and busy book packed with all the vehicles that children love!
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Why We Drive is a rebellious and daring celebration of the human spirit and the competence of ordinary people by the bestselling author of The Case for Working with Your Hands.
Once we were drivers on the open road.
Today we are more often in the back seat of an Uber.
As we hurtle toward a 'self-driving' future, are we destined to become passengers in our own lives too?
In Why We Drive, the philosopher and mechanic Matthew Crawford celebrates...
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When, two weeks before Christmas, the elves discover that Santa's sleigh is in a bad state, twelve teams of elves set out to build twelve different sleighs: a souped up hot rod, a semitruck that flies, a ship that sails in the sky, and each version is more elaborate than the one before--but which will Santa choose?
34) Here to there
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National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"Information for beginner readers about all forms of transportation."--Provided by publisher.
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Chicago Review Press
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English
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Publisher Annotation: From the very first days of aviation, women were there. Katherine Wright, though not a pilot, helped her brothers Orville and Wilbur so much that some called her the "Third Wright Brother." Pioneers such as Baroness Raymonde de Laroche of France ignored those who ignorantly claimed that only men possessed the physical strength or the mental capacity to pilot an airplane, and in 1910 became the first woman awarded a license to...
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Recounting his many hair-raising experiences as a truck driver on the Middle East run, some of them humorous, some alarming, Paul Rowlands recalls the camaraderie of the trucking fraternity. This book takes the reader on a ride through foreign lands in the cab of a long-haul lorry, providing an insider's perspective on overland travel. A tremendous tale, in which run-ins with the locals, dramatic encounters with foreign drivers and mechanical problems...
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"Readers of Cool Careers In Science will discover ten cutting-edge science, technology, and engineering careers, and dozens of subspecialties and will also learn why these careers are some of the most exciting, best paying, and fastest growing occupations in the world"--
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