Brian Floca
2) Locomotive
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English
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Presents a visual exploration of America's early railroads, examining the sounds, speed, and strength of the fledgling transcontinental locomotives and the experiences of pioneering travelers.
4) Five trucks
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Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Five different trucks do five different jobs to get an airplane ready for takeoff.
5) Locomotive
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English
Description
It is the summer of 1869, and trains, crews, and families are traveling together, riding America's brand new transcontinental railroad. The pages come alive with the details of the trip and the sounds, speed, and strength of the mighty locomotives; the work that keeps them moving; and the thrill of travel from plains to mountain to ocean. Come hear the hiss of the steam, feel the heat of the engine, watch the landscape race by. Come ride the rails,...
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English
Description
It is the summer of 1869, and trains, crews, and families are traveling together, riding America's brand new transcontinental railroad. The pages come alive with the details of the trip and the sounds, speed, and strength of the mighty locomotives; the work that keeps them moving; and the thrill of travel from plains to mountain to ocean. Come hear the hiss of the steam, feel the heat of the engine, watch the landscape race by. Come ride the rails,...
7) Lightship
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Lightships once served where lighthouses could not be built. They helped to guide sailors safely through the fog.
9) Poppy
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English
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Poppy the deer mouse urges her family to move next to a field of corn big enough to feed them all forever, but Mr. Ocax, a terrifying owl, has other ideas.
11) Ragweed & Poppy
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English
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The first new book about Poppy in more than ten years, from Newbery Medal-winning author Avi with illustrations throughout by Caldecott Medal-winning artist Brian Floca. How did Ragweed and Poppy meet and become friends? This book tells their hilarious story! Adventurous golden mouse Ragweed is on a freight train leaving the city of Amperville. On his journey he meets Lotar, a young, annoying, and lost raccoon who's desperate to reunite with his mother....
12) With Dad
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Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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"A boy remembers a special camping trip he shared with his father, who is now away at war."--
13) Ereth's birthday
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English
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Feeling neglected on his birthday, Ereth, the cantankerous old porcupine, sets out looking for his favorite treat and instead finds himself acting as "mother" to three young fox kits.
14) Ragweed
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English
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Ragweed, a young country mouse, leaves his family and travels to the big city, where he finds excitement and danger and sees cats for the first time.
15) Poppy and Ereth
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English
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After a long, hard winter in Dimwood forest, Poppy the deer mouse finds new adventure thrust upon her while rescuing Ereth the porcupine from the mud.
16) Poppy and Rye
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English
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When their home next to a brook is destroyed by beavers, a large family of golden mice is aided by Poppy the deer mouse and her grumpy porcupine friend, who in the process forges a relationship with the son he had abandoned.
17) Poppy's return
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English
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Poppy, accompanied by her troublesome son Junior, his skunk friend, and Uncle Ereth the porcupine, responds to a summons to return to her ancestral home, Gray House, to save the mice there from destruction by a bulldozer.
18) Old wolf
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Language
English
Description
"A wolf and bird must fight the starving time and find food, while a human boy learns to hunt"--