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Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Embarking on a train trip to visit his grandmother, Pete the Cat accompanies the conductor on a tour of the train, looks at the engine and blows the whistle while making new friends and playing train-themed games.
7) Iron horses
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and simple rhyming text depict the race to construct railroads across the country during the second half of the nineteenth century.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Penobscot Indian Molly Ayer is close to 'aging out' out of the foster care system. A community service position helping an elderly woman clean out her home is the only thing keeping Molly out of juvie and worse.... As she helps Vivian sort through her possessions and memories, Molly learns that she and Vivian aren't as different as they seem to be. A young Irish immigrant orphaned in New York City, Vivian was put on a train to the Midwest with hundreds...
9) The wrecker
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Investigating a series of attacks on the Southern Pacific Railroad's Cascades express lines, Detective Bell learns of the existence of an elusive saboteur who recruits and murders his own accomplices while engineering schemes of maximum havoc.
10) Trains
Author
Series
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
This book shows the cross-sections of ten locomotives, including The Rocket of 1829 and Le Shuttle, built for pulling the trains crossing under the English Channel.
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 22 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A boy traces the development of railroad engines from coal to steam to diesel as he recounts his family's experience of driving trains over the years.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1994
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ernestine, who loves going to the railroad station and watching the trains come and go, finally realizes her dream of going on a train trip.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Group
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
xx, 346 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A revelatory, entertaining account of the world's most indispensable mode of transportation Tom Zoellner loves trains with a ferocious passion. In his new book he chronicles the innovation and sociological impact of the railway technology that changed the world, and could very well change it again. From the frigid trans-Siberian railroad to the antiquated Indian Railways to the futuristic MagLev trains, Zoellner offers a stirring story of man's relationship...