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1) Roadwork
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Series
Language
English
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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.
4) Roads
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
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.
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Language
English
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"Kids will learn about the history of roads with Engineer It! Road Projects. They will discover how roads are built. Then, build their own cobblestone road, design a highway, and more. Each project has color photos and easy-to-follow instructions. Young crafters will be budding engineers in no time! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Applied to STEM Concepts of Learning Principles. "--Publisher's website.
6) Shadow men
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Series
Max Freeman mysteries volume 3
Language
English
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Description
Book three of the bestselling Max Freeman mystery series: Max seeks to uncover the twisted truth behind an eighty-year-old triple homicide. In the 1920s, three of Mark Mayes's ancestors left to help build the first road through the Everglades - backbreaking labor from which they never returned. Now, decades later, Mayes has discovered letters that point to murder as the cause of their disappearance, and he hires Max Freeman to get to the bottom of...
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English
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East of Troost's fictional narrator has moved back to her childhood home in a neighborhood that is now mostly Black and vastly changed by an expressway that displaced hundreds of families. It is the area located east of Troost Avenue, an invisible barrier created in the early 1900s to keep the west side of Kansas City white, "safely" cordoned off from the Black families on the east side.
8) The big dig
Author
Series
Carlotta Carlyle mysteries volume 9
Language
English
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Description
Boston's largest urban renewal undertaking in modern history draws Carlotta into an undercover gig at the site. It comes at the request of a disgruntled hardhat who suspects the multibillion-dollar project has set off a groundswell of graft, kickbacks, and fraud. The case hasn't unearthed anything but dirt, so Carlotta is tempted into moonlighting on another: a Beacon Street socialite who's deeply concerned about her vanishing tenant, a dog groomer...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A crew breaks up old pavement around a hole in the road, sets up cones, works with jackhammers, and prepares for diggers, dump trucks, and rollers to do their work, hauling in rocks and rolling the asphalt flat as they repair the road.
12) New road!
Author
Pub. Date
1983
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the planning and construction of a new road.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"[A] 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. Four and Nine are partners, working for the same company, sent without passports to a nation recovering from ten years of civil war. Together, operating under pseudonyms and anonymous to potential kidnappers, they are given a new machine, the RS-90, and tasked with building a highway that connects...
15) Pigs dig a road
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A team of pig construction workers building a new road to the county fair use teamwork to overcome unforeseen problems.
Author
Publisher
Amicus
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A boy walks home one day, only to find his street under construction! As he enjoys watching the excavators, bulldozers, dump trucks, pavers, and more, he gets a sense of the building process from start to finish. From blueprints to demolition to fresh, new asphalt, friendly, bright illustrations show the construction machines and workers up close"--
20) Road builders
Author
Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English