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2) Train dreams
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Presents the story of early twentieth-century day laborer Robert Grainer, who endures the harrowing loss of his family while struggling for survival in the American West against a backdrop of radical historical changes.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 28 cm
Description
"When their dad forgets his lunch box on his way to the construction site, a young brother and sister set out to take it to him, and along their way witness all the noisy, exciting action of a build site in the city."--Publisher's description.
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Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Mari Tucker is a wildlife biologist who scoops bunnies and endangered tortoises out of harm's way on construction sites. Still haunted by her past, she takes the most remote jobs in the Mojave Desert to avoid people and hide from her ex. It's a simple, quiet life filled with sweet animals and solar-powered baking until she ends up assigned to Jack Wyatt's crew. Construction foreman Jack Wyatt's loud, foul-mouthed temper keeps even the most rugged...
7) Smashy town
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
"With a turn of his crane and a swing of his wrecking ball, Mr. Gilly knocks down the old buildings. He smashes through brick and wood. He crashes through stone and glass. Then, with a push from his bulldozer, Mr. Gilly cleans it all up to make room for something brand-new!" -- Amazon.
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Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2018-
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All Marmalade wants to do is build things. She is, after all, a trained architect. Shes also a distractingly adorable kitten. Fed up with not being taken seriously because she's so cute, Marmalade bands together with a handful of other aspiring builders, all of them kittens. But in a world where humans call the shots, can the Kitten Construction Company prove their worth . . . without giving up the very things that make them kittens?
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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
333 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Why is it being built here, and why so quickly? These are the questions Cole, Bart, and Teddy, the three principals of True Triangle Construction, ask themselves when they are hired to finish a project for a mysteriously wealthy homeowner. Nestled in the mountains outside of Jackson, Wyoming, the house is a masterpiece, unlike anything they've done before. Once finished, it promises to be the architectural prize of Jackson and could put True Triangle...
11) Dino park
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Series
Publisher
LB Kids; Little Brown & Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
"Bob the Builder and his crew have a big job--finishing the new Dino Park before the mayor visits! But Muck is afraid of the dinosaur models. Can the team help Muck face his fear before the project becomes extinct?"--Back cover.
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"In 1979, Vincent Bianco has just graduated high school. His only desire: collect a little beer money and enjoy his final summer before college. So he lands a job as a laborer on a construction crew. Working alongside two Vietnam vets, one suffering from PTSD, Vincent gets the education of a lifetime. Now forty years later, with his own son leaving for college, the lessons of that summer--Vincent's last taste of innocence and first taste of real life--dramatically...
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Distributed by Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (55 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Having fun is getting it done, especially when Bob the Builder and his best friends are here to help! Watch and learn as Bob rescues his pal Scruffy, repairs an old theater, builds a stage, and throws a surprise birthday party for his best friend Wendy. Get the help you need from Bob the Builder in these heartwarming tales of teamwork and adventure. Special features included.
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Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
317 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Sold to a human trafficker after her village is devastated by famine, 10-year-old Sixiang, arriving in 19th-century America with the profits from her sale and a single photograph of her absent father, makes her way through an unforgiving new world in hopes of reuniting her family.
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"A groundbreaking, breathtaking history of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America only to disappear into the shadows of history until now"--
Author
Publisher
Bushel & Peck Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
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"I've written this book in hopes that its stories--and the incredible people they're about--will pull our country closer together through a shared history of the American West. In its own way the Wild West was a melting post every bit as much as the cities of the East Coast--and maybe even more so. While the American cowboy is, deservedly, a cultural icon and part of our national mythology, what many people don't know, is that a significant per\centage...
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