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Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Join Manny and his Tools as they head out of town to work on an exciting construction project in Concrete Falls. Meanwhile, back in Sheet Rock Hills, Mr. Lopart tries to fill in for Manny, with hilarious results! Can Kelly convince Manny to come home and save the day? Introducing new Power Tools, new songs, never-before-seen episode 'Good Fences/Butterflies, ' and a wonderful message about the rewards of taking on new challenges.
Author
Series
Publisher
Cherry Lake Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Do you like putting things together and building? That might be a potential clue to your future career! This book explores what a career in building might look like. Readers will discover how their interests can lead to a lifelong future career. Aligned to curriculum standards and 21st Century Skills, Career Clues for Kids prepares readers for a successful future. Includes table of contents, glossary, index, sidebars, and author biographies"--
Publisher
HIT Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
#1: While digging a ditch, Bob and coop make an exciting discovery--dinosaur bones! #2: Bob is building a time capsul for the museum to hold itmes donated by the townspeople. But Spud mistakes the capsul for a treasure chest and throws out what he considers to be trash. #3: Bob has a brand-new metal detector!
8) Glory
Series
Film Movement volume 15, film 8
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"Tsanko Petrov, a railroad worker, finds millions of leva [Bulgarian currency] on the train tracks. He decides to turn the money over to the police, for which the state rewards him with a new wristwatch that soon stops working. Meanwhile, Julia Staikova, head of the PR department of the Ministry of Transport, loses Petrov's old watch, a family relic. Here starts his desperate struggle to recover both his old watch and his dignity."--Publisher's website....
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 28
Description
In this account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage, Stephen E. Ambrose offers a historical successor to his universally acclaimed Undaunted Courage, which recounted the explorations of the West by Lewis and Clark. Nothing Like It in the World is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad -- the investors who risked their businesses and money; the enlightened politicians who understood its importance; the...
10) The drowning sea
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"In The Drowning Sea, Sarah Stewart Taylor returns to the critically acclaimed world of Maggie D'arcy with another atmospheric mystery so vivid readers will smell the salt in the air and hear the wind on the cliffs. For the first time in her adult life, former Long Island homicide detective Maggie D'arcy is unemployed. No cases to focus on, no leads to investigate, just a whole summer on a remote West Cork peninsula with her teenage daughter Lilly...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Bob and his team are ready to build big! Bob is on hand to rescue his friends when Scoop is stranded sky-high and Leo gets trapped in Fixham castle. We meet the Spring City Rockets at an outdoor movie space and Scoop mixes a crazy concrete creation inspired by Chef Tattie's milkshakes. No job is too big for this team as they build it Sky-High!
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Trans-Pecos had been running into unexpected difficulties while trying to complete its line across the Drifting Sands country. Besides the ordinary hazards of laying track across that wild section of West Texas, it had had to contend with Slash Hanlon's outlaw gang. The last two payrolls had been held up, and the workers at Eagle Camp at the end of the tracks had quit work and were threatening to riot if they were not paid. So when Shad Jones arrived...
Author
Series
Publisher
Clavis Publishing Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"A construction worker builds houses. First the ground is made even, and then a layer of concrete is poured over it. Now the construction worker can get started. He builds the walls and makes sure they're straight. When that's done, he adds a roof, doors, and windows. But there's still a lot more to be done inside"--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"The epic story of the Congo-Océan railroad and the human costs and contradictions of modern empire. The Congo-Océan railroad stretches across the Republic of Congo from Brazzaville to the Atlantic port of Pointe-Noir. It was completed in 1934, when Equatorial Africa was a French colony, and it stands as one of the deadliest construction projects in history. Colonial workers were subjects of an ostensibly democratic nation whose motto read "Liberty,...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
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"--
"The long-lost tale of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America only to disappear into the shadows of history. In 1864, as the Civil War still raged, throngs of Chinese migrants began to converge on the...
Series
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
The completion of the transcontinental railroad in May 1869 is usually told as a story of national triumph and a key moment for American Manifest Destiny. The railroad made it possible to cross the country in a matter of days instead of months, paved the way for new settlers to come out West, and helped speed America's entry onto the world stage as a modern nation that spanned a full continent. It also created vast wealth for its four owners, including...
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