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1) I'm dirty!
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A busy backhoe loader describes all the items it hauls off a lot and all the fun it has getting dirty while doing so.
3) Demolition
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Illustrations and rhyming text show the enormous and powerful machines that are used to demolish a building so that a playground can be built.
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Felix Carmer III, a magician's apprentice, knows that his master's magic is all smoke, mirrors, pulleys, and sleight of hand--but when he meets Grit, a flightless faerie princess, he discovers magic is very real. They strike a deal--Carmer will help Grit investigate some disturbing fairy disappearances, while Grit will use her real magic to help Carmer's mechanical illusions win a huge prize in the biggest magic competition in the land.
11) Machines at work
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During a busy day at the construction site, the workers use a variety of machines to knock down a building and begin constructing a new one.
12) Roadwork
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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.
13) Specimen days
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"In each section of Michael Cunningham's new novel, we encounter the same group of characters: a young boy, a man, and a woman. "In the Machine" is a ghost story that takes place at the height of the industrial revolution, as human beings confront the alienating realities of the new machine age. "The Children's Crusade, " set in the early twenty-first century, plays with the conventions of the noir thriller as it tracks the pursuit of a terrorist...
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"When massive, intelligent aliens from Mars touch down in Victorian England and threaten to destroy the civilized world, humanity's vaunted knowledge proves to be of little use. First published in 1898, H. G. Wells's masterpiece of speculative fiction has thrilled and delighted generations of readers, spawned countless imitations, and inspired dramatizations by such masters as Orson Welles and Steven Spielberg. The War of the Worlds is a fantasy that...
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"Old MacDonald had a farm E - I - E - I - O. And on that farm he had a ...truck?! With a dig dig here and scoop scoop there, this classic folk song just got revved up! Beloved construction vehicles, like the excavator, dump truck and bulldozer, will have the vehicle-obsessed of all ages singing along"--Back cover.
16) The diggers
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A picture book in which "everyone digs- [pirates] moles, rabbits, and worms. But the biggest and best digger of all is the great steam shovel." McClurg. Book News.