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1) The spy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
Description
It is 1908, and the international tensions are mounting as the world plunges toward war. When a brilliant American battleship gun designer dies in an apparent suicide, the man's grief-stricken daughter turns to the 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 to murder. When more suspicious deaths follow, it becomes clear that someone is orchestrating...
2) The Wrecker
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 20
Description
In The Chase, Clive Cussler introduced an electrifying new hero, the tall, lean, no-nonsense detective Isaac Bell, who, driven by his sense of justice, travels early-twentieth-century America pursuing thieves and killers . . . and sometimes criminals much worse. It is 1907, a year of financial panic and labor unrest. Train wrecks, fires, and explosions sabotage the Southern Pacific Railroad's Cascades express line and, desperate, the railroad hires...
3) All aboard!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Describes the travels of a cargo train as it passes through Lego City, from loading its cargo onto the cars, driving over bridges and into tunnels, and pulling into Lego City station.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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...
11) Smokey
Author
Pub. Date
1962
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Smokey, an old train, has been given up for scrap metal. He is so sad that he blows smoke rings in the shapes of letters. A teacher sees his letters and buys him for use in her classroom.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
When the Depression hits in Cairo, Illinois, and Oscar Ogilvie's father must sell their home and vast model train set-up to look for work in California, eleven-year-old Oscar is left with his dour aunt, where he befriends a mysterious drifter, witnesses a stunning bank robbery, and is suddenly catapulted onto a train that takes him to a different time and place.
16) Courage hats
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Mae is a little girl, and Bear is a bear, but they are both afraid of trains and traveling to places they do not know, so they put on courage hats; Mae's has bear ears, and Bear's has people ears, and when they meet on the train going through bear country to the city, they take courage in each other's company and soon become friends--and when they arrive they exchange hats, which is a lot like exchanging hearts.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
A Step into Reading Step 2 leveled reader with stickers based on the all-new Thomas & Friends animated series on Netflix and Cartoon Network! Peep Peep! Train-loving children who are ready to read will enjoy this new 4-color Step into Reading Step 2 leveled reader with bonus stickers based on the all-new Thomas & Friends animated series on Netflix!