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1) The spy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
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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...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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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...
3) The Wrecker
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 20
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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...
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Holland family saga volume 4
Pub. Date
2021.
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The American West in the early 1960s appears to be a pastoral paradise: golden wheat fields, mist-filled canyons, frolicking animals. Aspiring novelist Aaron Holland Broussard has observed it from the open door of a boxcar, riding the rails for both inspiration and odd jobs. Jumping off in Denver, he finds work on a farm and meets Joanne McDuffy, an articulate and fierce college student and gifted painter. Their soul connection is immediate, but their...
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Ernest Cunningham volume 2
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"When the Australian Mystery Writers' Society invited me to their crime-writing festival aboard the Ghan, the famous train between Darwin and Adelaide, I was hoping for some inspiration for my second book. Fiction, this time: I needed a break from real people killing each other. Obviously, that didn't pan out. The program is a who's who of crime writing royalty: the debut writer (me!), the forensic science writer, the blockbuster writer, the legal...
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Goodnight Train volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"A child's bedtime ritual follows the imaginary journey of the Goodnight Train's trip to the dreamland station."--Publishef.
10) All aboard!
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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.
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Goodnight Train volume 3
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Illustrations and easy-to-read, rhyming text welcome riders onto the Goodnight Train as it follows Santa's sleigh on Christmas Eve.
16) Alphabet trains
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Simple text uses railroads to teach children about different trains and the alphabet.
18) The train ride
Author
Pub. Date
1996, c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A journey on a train provides excitement, nice scenery, and pleasant anticipation.
19) Train song
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Description
Rhymed text and illustrations describe the journey of a transcontinental trains.
20) Train
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Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Board a commuter train in New York, then follow the journey west and see the stations, the scenery, the different types of trains, and all the people who travel and work on the railroad system.