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Sent to a salvage yard in Arizona's high desert to stop copper thieves from targeting a strategically vital war supply tunnel, Hook Runyon and his dog, Mixer, assist Lieutenant Allison Capron from the Army Transportation Department to investigate the death of a guard who was involved in a suspicious love triangle.
45) Big Choo
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Little Choo wants to be just like his father Papa Pufferbelly, but pulling a line of freight cars up a steep mountain might be a little too much for the small engine.
46) Trains
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Brief text and illustrations introduce the world of trains, from the steam locomotives of the nineteenth century to today's high speed electric models.
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"Daddy Pig has a surprise for Peppa, George, and Mummy Pig. But they'll have to hurry to the fairgrounds to find out what it is. The car is the quickest way to go, but when it breaks down, the family has to figure out another way--and fast! Bikes are too slow, and Miss Rabbit's fire engine isn't available. Can they take the bus? How about Grandpa's train, or a digger, or the ice cream truck? It's a race against time as Peppa and her family use all...
51) The Silver Arrow
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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,...
52) Snowpiercer
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The film is set in the future (AD 2031) where, after a failed experiment to stop global warming, an ice age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe and is powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. Its inhabitants are divided by class; the lower-class passengers in one of the last cars stage an uprising, moving car by car up to the front of the train, where the oppressive...
53) Trains
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"Developed by literacy experts in partnership with educators for students in PreK through grade two, this book introduces beginning readers to trains through simple, predictable text and related photos"--
57) Wild zoo train
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"A zoo train full of children takes a mysterious turn into the wilds. As each train trip becomes more and more wild, curious children observe the whimsical world around them!"--Dust jacket.
58) 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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Thomas the Tank Engines friend Farmer McColl asks him to fetch some hay to make a bed for some soon-to-be-born piglets. Train-loving boys and girls ages 4 to 6 who are reading with help will be charmed by this Step into Reading Step 2 story of Thomas good intentions, which go a little bit wrong until Thomas fixes things just in the nick of time! Thomas wants to welcome the piglets in a big way, so he asks his friends Percy and James to help. But his...