Ng, Yvonne
Summary: "A boy walks home one day, only to find his street under construction! As he enjoys watching the excavators, bulldozers, dump trucks, pavers, and more, he gets a sense of the building process from start to finish. From blueprints to demolition to fresh, new asphalt, friendly, bright illustrations show the construction machines and workers up close"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amicus 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NGZemlicka, Shannon
Summary: Briefly introduces the process by which rocks and asphalt are turned into a roadway using tractors, bulldozers, graders, and other equipment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 625.7 ZEMRinker, Sherri Duskey
Summary: Told in rhyming text, seven new road-building machines set out on a job--building, rolling, paving, and painting a brand new road.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2021
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Summary: "From the best-selling author of The Monk of Mokha, a suspenseful 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 that questions whether we can ever understand another nation's war, and what role we have in forging anyone's peace"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC EGGHennessy, B. G. (Barbara G.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1994
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E HenSutton, Sally.
Summary: There are many big machines and busy people involved in building a road, and this picture book, with its rambunctious rhymes and noisy fun, follows them every step of the way, from clearing a pathway to rolling the tar to sweeping up at the end.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2008
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Summary: Big machines and their drivers work together to build a road. On board pages.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2002
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Summary: "It begins with an eighty-year-old mystery. Three men - a father and his two sons - vanished without a trace while working as labourers on a dangerous project to build the first road through the Florida Everglades. Now, years later, a series of letters are unexpectedly discovered by a descendent of these men. Driven by the need to know what happened to these lost members of the family, he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINVan Leuven, Susan.
Summary: Now anyone can make their own, custom-built canoe guaranteed to draw raves on land and water alike. This comprehensive, detailed guide to the process of contructing a high-quality wood strip canoe is written especially for the novice boat builder. All phases of construction are extensively illustrated with color photos and line drawings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schiffer Pub. 1998