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3) Diggers go
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Come to the construction site and read about the eight construction vehicles that rumble and boom their way through this book.
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On the family's Brazos River Ranch in Texas, Avery Elliott helps run her grandfather's commercial construction business. Raised by Senator Elliott, Avery has never doubted her grandfather is the man of integrity and faith she's always believed him to be . . . until the day she finds him standing with a gun over the body of a dead man. To make matters worse, Avery's just discovered a billing discrepancy for materials supposedly purchased for construction...
5) Dream backyards: from planters to decks, over 30 projects to create a beautiful outdoor living space
Publisher
Reader's Digest
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
The sounds, sights, and activity of a construction site provide for endless fascination. Packed with more than 60 tabbed moving parts to pull, lift, and explore; crammed with meticulous detail of vehicles, buildings, and techniques; here's a book that will satisfy even the most curious of kids. Whether it's building a bridge or a skyscraper, a giant ship or a tunnel, there's a wealth of color, action, and knowledge to be gleaned on each of the ten...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Trygve Knutson is devoted to his family and his community. With his construction job, he's helping to build a future for the North Dakota town of Blessing. Yet he sometimes dreams of other horizons -- especially since meeting Miriam Hastings. Miriam is in Blessing for practical training to become an accredited nurse in Chicago. But her growing attachment to Trygve soon has her questioning a future she always considered set in stone.
12) Destined for you
Author
Series
Ladies of the lake volume 1
Language
English
Description
"In 1869, Gloriana Womack's family is much smaller since scarlet fever killed her mother and two of her siblings. She lives in a modest cottage in Duluth, Minnesota, with her father and young brother, and she has dedicated her life to holding her tiny, fractured family together--especially as her father is frequently gone on long fishing trips. Their livelihood may come from the waters of Lake Superior, but storms on the lake can be dangerous, even...
13) Brooklyn Bridge
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the planning, construction, and history of the Brooklyn Bridge, celebrated as one of the greatest landmarks and grandest sights of New York City.
15) Demolition
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
This picture book follows the demolition of a building as well as the construction of something entirely different in its place.
17) Dig!
Author
Publisher
Harcourt/Silver Whistle
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
18) Dinosaur dig
Author
Publisher
Nosy Crow/Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Dinosaurs from one to ten use construction equipment to dig, shovel, roll, and scrape as they build a fun surprise.
19) The U. P. Trail
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the master of the western comes a novel full of romance and adventure. The story begins: In the early sixties a trail led from the broad Missouri, swirling yellow and turgid between its green-groved borders, for miles and miles out upon the grassy Nebraska plains, turning westward over the undulating prairie, with its swales and billows and long, winding lines of cottonwoods, to a slow, vast heave of rising ground-Wyoming-where the herds of buffalo...
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A father and his young child watch the construction of the new school, from the bulldozing of earth and mixing of the concrete for the foundation to the hanging of the new sign.