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5) Rocky road
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English
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Axel the Truck has big wheels, and he loves to drive fast. A trip to the mountains includes some monster hills and bumpy roads! Features read-to-me audio, perfect for sharing.
6) Roadwork
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There are many big machines and busy people involved in building a road, and this picture book, with its rambunctious rhymes and noisy fun, follows them every step of the way, from clearing a pathway to rolling the tar to sweeping up at the end.
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"An eye-opening and witty account of the global ecological transformations wrought by roads, from an award-winning author. Some 40 million miles of roadways encircle the earth, but we tend to regard them only as infrastructure for human convenience. In Crossings, Ben Goldfarb delves into the new science of road ecology to explore how roads have transformed our world. Millions of animals are killed by cars each day in the US alone, and roads fragment...
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2019.
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English
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"From the best-selling author of The Monk of Mokha, a suspenseful story of two men, Western contractors sent to work far from home, tasked with paving a road to the capital in a dangerous and largely lawless country that questions whether we can ever understand another nation's war, and what role we have in forging anyone's peace"--
Four and Nine are partners, working for the same company, sent without passports to a nation recovering from ten years...
11) Wherever you go
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Illustrations and rhyming text follow a young rabbit as he leaves home on a journey, discovering the joys of different kinds of roads and what they may bring--including a way back home.
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A Clouded Leopard in the Middle of the Road is an eye-opening introduction to the ecological impacts of roads. Drawing on over ten years of active engagement in the field of road ecology, Darryl Jones sheds light on the challenges roads pose to wildlife--and the solutions taken to address them. One of the most ubiquitous indicators of human activity, roads typically promise development and prosperity. Yet they carry with them the threat of disruption...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Buckle up for brutal switchbacks, perilous plunges, stupendous speeds, and ludicrous lengths! This ride of a lifetime will transport readers down famous roads and highways all over the globe. They'll explore engineering marvels from the iconic Route 66 to record-breaking roads. They'll learn about the design behind the fastest, longest, and steepest roads-and marvel at the strangest roads ever built! Stunning photographs of these epic roads and highways...
14) Roads
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Readers will have a blast learning about Roads. From stone to asphalt and concrete, this book explores how they are built, how they are used, and the engineer's job to build and plan for them. --Amazon
16) Roadwork
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English
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Bart Dawes home is about to be wiped out due to "progress". Notice I said HOME and not HOUSE, because there is a major difference. Everything good in his life, as well as his memories, are about to be literally ... leveled by a bulldozer. The book takes us to a place some have been, some will not understand, but many may see in the future. A place where you have more yesterdays than tommorrows, and when you try to hold on to the one thing you have...
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Scribner
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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From acclaimed popular historian Richard Snow, the thrilling story of the naval battle that not only changed the course of the Civil War but the future of all sea power. No single sea battle has triggered more far-reaching consequences than the one fought in the harbor at Hampton Roads, Virginia, in March 1862. The Confederacy, with no fleet of its own, built a sloped iron fort containing ten heavy guns on the hull of a captured Union frigate named...
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A brilliant new collection of poetry by the winner of the Kingley Tufts Poetry Award and author of Falling Water, hailed by John Ashbery as one of the greatest American poets since Wallace Stevens.
John Koethe's recent honor as the winner of the $50,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for Falling Water confirms his status as one of the nation's most important poets. He has been included in this year's Best American Poetry, was a finalist for the Boston...
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"White and red sandstones, green shales, and pink granites are hard to appreciate in black and white. Two-color maps cannot do justice to the many patterns in the bedrock geology. A state with places like the Painted Wall, the Florissant Fossil Beds, and the Maroon Bells deserves a color edition. That is why Mountain Press teamed up with authors Felicie Williams and Halka Chronic to produce a color edition of Roadside Geology of Colorado. The updated...