Brian Floca
2) Locomotive
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, map ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
Learn what it was like to travel on the transcontinental railroad in the 1860s.
4) Five trucks
Author
Language
English
Description
Five different trucks do five different jobs to get an airplane ready for takeoff.
5) Locomotive
Author
Language
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,...
Author
Language
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,...
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
1997.
Physical Desc
26 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
When her class goes ape on a school visit to the Natural History Museum, a wily teacher tells the tale of a rambunctious former classmate of her own who found himself left behind in the museum after dark.
Author
Publisher
DK Ink
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
29 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, color map ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized account of the expeditions led by Roy Chapman Andrews for New York's American Museum of Natural History to the Gobi Desert in Mongolia in an effort to uncover dinosaur fossils.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
29 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
An exciting day at the races highlights the letters of the alphabet as a variety of automobiles burn fuel speeding through the curves of the track.
10) Lightship
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
38 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Lightships once served where lighthouses could not be built. They helped to guide sailors safely through the fog.
11) Poppy
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
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.
12) Poppy and Ereth
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
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.
13) Poppy's return
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
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.
14) Ereth's birthday
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
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.
16) Ragweed & Poppy
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
How did Ragweed and Poppy meet and become friends? 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. Though Ragweed doesn't really want to help the raccoon, by doing so he winds up in Dimwood Forest. Ragweed is now ready to strike off on his own, but it's not long before he hears a cry for help. Following...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
81 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
While spending Christmas at their grandparents' farm, Lily becomes convinced that her younger brother Liam is right about White Cow being lonely and helps him seek a companion for her, leaving little time for Christmas preparations or reading.
18) Lightning Liz
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
An energetic young girl rushes on the way to bake a cake.
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
[1995]
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Hardscrabble Tennessee farmer Clemmon Hardigree's hard-luck changes when he plants seed potatoes in Cow Hollow before his fat mountain cows cause the pasture to collapse.