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"From a beloved author, a spare, powerful story of two men, Western contractors sent to work far from home, tasked with paving a road to the capital in a dangerous and largely lawless country. Four and Five are partners, working for the same company, sent without passports to a nation recovering from ten years of civil war. Together, operating under pseudonyms and anonymous to potential kidnappers, they are given a new machine, the RS-90, and tasked...
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Explore Ontario's historic roads, each with unexpected side trips and a fascinating story. In his relentless quest for the unusual in a world of the mundane, modern-day explorer Ron Brown has traveled nearly every backroad in Ontario. This guidebook features 22 trips, each illustrated with photographs and accompanied by an easy-to-follow map. These trips range in length from afternoon outings to weekend excursions. And all lead to fascinating out-of-the-way...
6) Roads
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Takes readers on a tour of different roads across Canada, exploring where, how, and why they were built.
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"From the publisher that brought you the bestselling Baby University books comes a brand-new series of construction books for kids. Let's build a highway! How? We'll show you! Join the construction team in this board book as they go about the steps involved in building a highway, from surveying the roadway, to using a bulldozer to clear the path, and so much more. Toddlers will love the bright and bold art, and parents will love the gentle explanation...
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Kids will learn about the history of roads with Engineer It! Road Projects. They will discover how roads are built. Then, build their own cobblestone road, design a highway, and more. Each project has color photos and easy-to-follow instructions. Young crafters will be budding engineers in no time! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Applied to STEM Concepts of Learning Principles. Super Sandcastle is an imprint of...
11) Mama and me
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As they hop down the road, Mama and Toad save the day for several friends who have gotten stuck one way or another.
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience!
Around the world, city highways and country roads have cut through natural spaces. Wild animals are blocked from the resources they need to survive, or must make dangerous crossings across busy roads to get to them. Fortunately, solving this problem has inspired some creative solutions! Take a tour of wildlife crossings across...
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"Some 40 million miles of roadways encircle the earth, yet we tend to regard them only as infrastructure for human convenience. While roads are so ubiquitous they're practically invisible to us, wild animals experience them as entirely alien forces of death and disruption. In 'Crossings', environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb travels throughout the United States and around the world to investigate how roads have transformed our planet. A million animals...
15) Road block
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When Bree tries to save her grandmother's farm, which is about to be destroyed by the building of a superhighway, she is surprised to find her own family standing in her way.
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Dog on a log chapter books volume step 7
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The Dog on a log Book series helps kids, including kids with dyslexia, learn to read. They are sound out books that start with just a few phonics rules. Each following Step of books adds a few more phonics rules and sight words. This gradual progression lets kids learn to read without feeling so overwhelmed.
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