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65) Skyscrapers
Series
Publisher
Hit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Bob is back in an-all new construction adventure to teach the art of building skyscrapers. Along with Tumbler, Dizzy, Lofty and Flex, Bob is always ready to tackle even the tallest projects. No problem is too high to solve when you have positive-thinking and teamwork.
Author
Series
Publisher
Branches/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Eerie Elementary seems to be falling down around the students and teachers, so Principal Winik decides the school must be torn down, but Sam, Lucy, and Antonio suspect that somehow this is all part of Orson Eerie's evil plan to live forever--and if it is they must find a way to prevent the demolition.
Author
Publisher
Flux, an imprint of North Star Editions, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In 1936 San Francisco, eighteen-year-old Willa MacCarthy is bound for the convent. But when she discovers her love of medicine, she will defy her family and work with a female doctor to care for those building the Golden Gate Bridge"--
1936. Wilhelmina 'Willa' MacCarthy Irish-Catholic family is counting on her to take vows as a nun. But Willa's found another calling: sneaking away to help Doctor Katherine Winston in her medical clinic in San Francisco's...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Inspiring historical fiction based on the real life of Bertha Benz, whose husband built the first prototype automobile, which eventually evolved into the Mercedes-Benz marque. "Unfortunately, only a girl again." From a young age, Cäcilie Bertha Ringer is fascinated by her father's work as a master builder in Pforzheim, Germany. But those five words, which he wrote next to her name in the family Bible, haunt Bertha. Years later, Bertha meets Carl...
Author
Series
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In this volume, join a pair of superheroes as they uncover the secrets of skyscrapers, from the great Egyptians pyramids to the world's tallest building. Read along and learn how skyscrapers are a bold combination of applied physics, ingenuity, and a lot of hard work!"--Provided by publisher
Author
Publisher
Capstone Editions, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"There is no better place in the world than a library. Especially a library that kids create! A million stories high? Sure. Bathtubs? Absolutely. A full-service sundae bar? Of course. Everything is possible in this library - just like in books! Author Lindsay Leslie puts the reader in charge as the architect of a fantastical library." -- publisher's website
Author
Publisher
Lumen
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
The breathtaking story of five brothers who bring each other up in a world run by their own rules. As the Dunbar boys love and fight and learn to reckon with the adult world, they discover the moving secret behind their father's disappearance. At the center of the Dunbar family is Clay, a boy who will build a bridge--for his family, for his past, for greatness, for his sins, for a miracle. The question is, how far is Clay willing to go? And how much...
75) Pop's bridge
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Robert and his friend Charlie are proud of their fathers, who are working on the construction of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"Charley McFarland is an aging '60s radical and a continuing advocate of losing political battles. When a proposed local highway bypass threatens the home of the exquisitely obscure Rocky Mountain Phistic copper butterfly, he knows it's time to rally the troops once more."--Jacket.
79) Dead man's road
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In the high Rocky Mountains, Civil War veteran Marshall Brewster has a vision of wealth and fame. Under the tutelage of a hardened railroad tycoon, Brewster will build a railroad connecting Colorado's booming silver mines to a country starved for wealth-and maybe win himself the hand of a beautiful woman in the process. But as in war, Brewster's plan is soon shattered by the enemy: an angry, proud and desperate tribe of Cheyenne warriors, a competing...
