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Publisher
Penguin Distribution Childrens
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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Description
Fourteen poems compiled by award-winning poet and anthologist Lee Bennett Hopkins introduce readers to the various construction people who collaborate to create a high-rise hotel building, from architect to crane operator to glaziers and more. How does an empty lot transform into a new hotel? This anthology begins with a busy construction site, and an architect's (and her daughter's) dreams drawn on blueprint paper. Next, workers with huge machines--backhoes,...
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 22 x 26 cm.
Description
"Abby loves her community and the construction workers that built it! Construction workers create everything from sidewalks to buildings. This engaging approach to curricular content invites readers to learn all about construction workers"--
4) Builders
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Benchmark
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Description
"Introduces the tools builders use in their work"--Provided by publisher.
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.
7) Locke
Publisher
Lionsgate
Formats
Description
A feat of bold, dynamic storytelling from Oscar-nominated writer-director Steven Knight. A successful businessman receives a series of phone calls which sets into motion a chain of events that unravels his perfect life, all of which takes the course of one absolutely riveting and intense car ride.
"Tom Hardy is a blazing wonder. Hold you spellbound..."--Rolling Stone
"Grade A. A brilliant one-man show."--Entertainment Weekly
"5 Stars! Gripping."--The...
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2018-
Physical Desc
Description
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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Formats
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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...
11) Tycoon
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This adventure is set in South America's rugged Andes Mountains. The Duke has been assigned by a powerful U.S. mining magnate to build a railroad to his newest mines. His romance with the boss's daughter only complicates matters.
Author
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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