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Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Profiles the men who built the transcontinental railroad, the investors who risked their businesses to fund it, the politicians who understood its importance, the Irish and Chinese immigrants who worked on it, and the other laborers who did the dangerous work of laying the track.
2) Dig!
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Follows Mr. Rally and his dog, Lightning, as they travel the town on a big yellow digging machine, taking care of five important jobs.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
As his own son gets ready to leave for college, Vincent Bianco recalls his final summer before college in 1979, during which he received an education of a lifetime while working alongside two Vietnam vets as a laborer on a construction site.
Author
Series
Moby Shinobi volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Told in rhyme, Moby Shinobi tries to help out the construction workers building a house, but as usual his ninja skills just create chaos--until he saves a puppy that has gotten stuck in wet concrete.
Author
Series
Ribbons of steel volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the 1840s Carolina and James Baldwin face the struggles of family life in western Virginia, where James supervises the construction of the B & O Railroad through the Allegheny Mountains.
Publisher
Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Mistaken for a famous archaeologist and entrusted with a sacred Incan relic, a Chicago construction worker helps an absentminded professor and his beautiful daughter find an ancient lost city before a group of evil treasure hunters find it first.
Author
Publisher
Creston Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Dashrath Manjhi used a hammer and chisel, grit, determination, and twenty years to carve a path through the mountain separating his poor village from the nearby village with schools, markets, and a hospital. Manjhi Moves a Mountain shows how everyone can make a difference if their heart is big enough."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Little Bee Books, an imprint of Bonnier Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Little Bee Books edition.
Language
English
Description
While Bertie is at school he does everything he can to be like his dad, a construction worker, but when Daddy comes home from work he says the best part of his day is being home with Bertie.
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Bob and his dream machine team travel across the ocean to Bobblesberg, where they will help set up for the Winter Games! But what happens when Scoop decides he can do all the work by himself?
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