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Author
Description
"An expanded and updated edition of the classic guide for backyard builders covers all the issues: use, cost, placement, difficulty, and construction basics; and provides detailed illustrations, plans and commonsense advice. Easy-to-follow shed designs with loads of color examples. The new edition of this classic do-it-yourself guide for backyard builders now contains more material and photographs than ever. Sheds helps the do-it-yourself builder...
23) Built to last
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Reveals the how and why behind some of the most fascinating and enduring structures humankind has ever created.
24) Earthway
Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 15
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
A group of activists is determined to do whatever is necessary to stop the building of a nuclear power plant--assault, sabotage, domestic terrorism. When a fellow Navajo Police officer is injured in an attack aimed at Ella Clah's boyfriend, Ella vows to do whatever it takes to find the terrorists and bring them to justice.
25) Roadwork
Author
Series
Roadworks volume 1
Description
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.
27) Road builders
Author
Description
"It takes many kinds of trucks to build a road, and here you'll meet every one of them - bulldozers, front loaders, power rollers, and more - all dynamically illustrated by Caldecott Medalist Simms Taback"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
This book helps readers figure out what they really want and how to get it, whether its a contemporary, brushed-stainless workroom worthy of an upscale restaurant; a rustic, farmhouse-style great room with wood flooring and a couch; or an elegant, streamlined space for a small city apartment.
31) Threshold
Author
Series
The wayfarer redemption volume 7
Description
A shadow is looming over the great hot southern land of Ashdod. It is the shadow of threshold, the pyramid that the Magi of Agi are building to propel them into Infinity. But something is waiting in Infinity. Waiting for the final glass to be laid, waiting for the capstone to be cemented in blood, waiting to use threshold to step from Infinity into Ashdod! thousands of slaves have been drafted into the construction of threshold. Among them is tirzah,...
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Series
Description
In this dramatic sequel of "Dances with Wolves" about army Lt. John Dunbar and his life with the Comanche Indians on the Great Plains. It is now 1874, 11 years after Dunbar deserted from the army to live among the Comanche. He has married Stands with a Fist, the captive white woman raised by Indians, and they have three children.
34) The cookcamp
Author
Series
Alida volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
During World War II, a little boy is sent to live with his grandma, a cook in a camp for workers building a road through the wilderness.
36) Amazing bridges
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"In this book, early fluent readers will learn about the technology behind the world's coolest bridges, covering how they are planned, designed, and constructed by architects and engineers. Crisp, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they learn more. An infographic aids understanding, and an activity offers readers an opportunity to extend discovery. Children can learn more about the architecture of bridges using...
Pub. Date
[1994]
Description
A house made out of straw? Yes! Whether you build an entire house or something more modest--a home office or studio, a retreat cabin or guest cottage--plastered straw bale construction is an exceptionally durable and inexpensive option. What's more, it's fun, because the technique is easy to learn and easy to do yourself. And the resulting living spaces are unusually quiet and comfortable.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"In this book, early fluent readers will learn about the technology behind the world's coolest skyscrapers, covering how they are planned, designed, and constructed by architects and engineers. Crisp, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they learn more. An infographic aids understanding, and an activity offers readers an opportunity to extend discovery. Children can learn more about the architecture of skyscrapers...
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