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1) The spy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
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It is 1908, and the international tensions are mounting as the world plunges toward war. When a brilliant American battleship gun designer dies in an apparent suicide, the man's grief-stricken daughter turns to the Van Dorn Detective Agency to clear her father's name. Van Dorn puts his chief investigator on the case, and Isaac Bell soon realizes that the clues point to murder. When more suspicious deaths follow, it becomes clear that someone is orchestrating...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Celebrate the 90th anniversary of The Little Engine That Could with this all-time classic reillustrated by Caldecott Award-winning artist Dan Santat!
The kindness and determination of the Little Blue Engine have inspired millions of children around the world since the story was first published in 1930. Cherished by readers for ninety years, The Little Engine That Could is a classic tale of a little engine that, despite her size, triumphantly pulls...
4) The Wrecker
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 20
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In The Chase, Clive Cussler introduced an electrifying new hero, the tall, lean, no-nonsense detective Isaac Bell, who, driven by his sense of justice, travels early-twentieth-century America pursuing thieves and killers . . . and sometimes criminals much worse. It is 1907, a year of financial panic and labor unrest. Train wrecks, fires, and explosions sabotage the Southern Pacific Railroad's Cascades express line and, desperate, the railroad hires...
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Silver Arrow volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
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Kate and her younger brother Tom lead dull, uninteresting lives. And if their dull, uninteresting parents are anything to go by, they don't have much to look forward to. Why can't Kate have thrilling adventures and save the world the way people do in books? Even her 11th birthday is shaping up to be mundane -- that is, until her mysterious and highly irresponsible Uncle Herbert, whom she's never even met before, surprises her with the most unexpected,...
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Isaac Bell thrillers volume 3
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
Description
Investigating a ruling that a pre-World War I battleship gun designer committed suicide, chief investigator Isaac Bell discovers that a spy with ties to a top-secret project has been staging the killings of America's leading technological minds.
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Stanley books (William Bee) volume 8
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Stanley has a busy day driving a train to the sea.
8) Trains Go
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Trains grumble, roar, and squeak their way through this board book. On board pages.
Trains grumble, roar, and squeak their way through this board book.
9) Train man
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Digger man volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A young boy imagines what it would be like to drive a train and take his little brother along for the ride.
11) The little train
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
Engineer Small takes the little train on its run from Tinytown to the big city, passing farms, traveling over a bridge, and going though a tunnel along the way.
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Isaac Bell thrillers volume 2
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Description
Detective Isaac Bell, working for the Van Dorn Detective Agency in 1907, is sent to stop a man known only as the Wrecker, a criminal who traverses the American West, sabotaging railroads and causing death while building up to what Bell guesses will be a grandiose and devastating act.
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Goodnight Train volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"A child's bedtime ritual follows the imaginary journey of the Goodnight Train's trip to the dreamland station."--Publishef.
14) All aboard!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Describes the travels of a cargo train as it passes through Lego City, from loading its cargo onto the cars, driving over bridges and into tunnels, and pulling into Lego City station.
16) Shark vs. train
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A shark and a train compete in a series of contests on a seesaw, in hot air balloons, bowling, shooting baskets, playing hide-and-seek, and more.
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Goodnight Train volume 3
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Illustrations and easy-to-read, rhyming text welcome riders onto the Goodnight Train as it follows Santa's sleigh on Christmas Eve.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
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"Tom Langdon, a weary and cash-strapped journalist, is banned from flying when a particularly thorough airport security search causes him to lose his cool. Now, he must take the train if he has any chance of arriving in Los Angeles in time for Christmas with his girlfriend. To finance the trip, he sells a story about a train ride taken during the Christmas season."