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2) The wrecker
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Detective Isaac Bell travels the early-twentieth-century American railways, driven by a sense of justice and a determination to stop a new mastermind reigning terror on a crucial express line in this #1 New York Times-bestselling series.
A year of financial panic and labor unrest, 1907 sees train wrecks, fires, and explosions sabotage the Southern Pacific Railroad’s Cascades express line. Desperate for help the railroad...
A year of financial panic and labor unrest, 1907 sees train wrecks, fires, and explosions sabotage the Southern Pacific Railroad’s Cascades express line. Desperate for help the railroad...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Celebrate the 90th anniversary of The Little Engine That Could with this all-time classic reillustrated by Caldecott Award-winning artist Dan Santat!
The kindness and determination of the Little Blue Engine have inspired millions of children around the world since the story was first published in 1930. Cherished by readers for ninety years, The Little Engine That Could is a classic tale of a little engine that, despite her size, triumphantly pulls...
7) The spy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In 1908, a brilliant American battleship gun designer dies in a sensational apparent suicide. The man's grief-stricken daughter turns to the legendary Van Dorn Detective Agency to clear her father's name. Van Dorn puts his chief investigator on the case, and Isaac Bell soon realizes that the clues point not to suicide but to murder.
10) Train
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A picture-packed guide to the fascinating story of trains and how they have transformed our world. Discover how the vision of George Stephenson, the "father of the railroad," materialized into an age of steam around the world. Study the cut-out of a locomotive to understand how the movement of the piston turns the wheels. Learn how the American railroad contributed to the development and progress in the US and facilitated the spread of population...
13) I'm fast!
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
A freight train and a car race each other on the way to Chicago.
14) Train
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Rhyming text and illustrations depict the sights and sounds of a train ride.
Author
Series
Goodnight Train volume 2
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Even though jostling sheep, bright moonlight, and a monster teddy bear threaten the sleep of its passengers, the Goodnight Train successfully completes its run.
18) Snowpiercer
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The film is set in the future (AD 2031) where, after a failed experiment to stop global warming, an ice age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe and is powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. Its inhabitants are divided by class; the lower-class passengers in one of the last cars stage an uprising, moving car by car up to the front of the train, where the oppressive...
19) Sleep train
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After climbing into bed with his book, a little boy goes on a bedtime adventure as he counts the train cars between the engine and the caboose.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In "Marvelous Machinery" Thomas the Tank Engine and his engine friends help the Earl and his friend Ruth get ready for a fair featuring new inventions, and in "The Royal Engine" Thomas takes Sir Topham Hatt to London to meet the queen.
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