From engine to caboose - kids love everything about trains. Trains on the Tracks uses vibrant images and simple text to explain the train basics, including types of trains and how people use trains. Kids will love reading about - how an engine and railcars fit together to make a train - how train wheels keep trains on the tracks - the different kinds of cars that make up freight trains - kinds of passenger trains

Helicopters fly over your head every day. Every Helicopter is different and has a job to do. Do you know about them? Helicopters is a book-banded reading book for developing readers, carefully levelled at Blue Book Band for guided reading. Illustrated throughout with beautiful photographs, this nonfiction title is suitable for ages 9-13. Helicopters features a longer, less structured text with a more flexible vocabulary. There is variation in sentence patterns and content, little repetition, and longer language patterns. It has a full range of punctuation. Helicopters is part of Ransom Reading Stars Plus, a structured programme for students learning to read. The series has ten levels: four phonics levels and six book band levels (Pink through to Orange).

Find out about the coolest cars...Hot Rods! Hot Rods is a low level phonics reading book. Beautifully illustrated throughout, this nonfiction title features a fully decodable text, suitable for ages 9 - 13. Hot Rods covers the third set of basic letters and sounds that students meet in Phase 4 of Letters and Sounds, the UK Government's synthetic phonics reading programme. Hot Rods is part of Ransom Reading Stars Plus, a structured reading programme for students learning to read. The series has ten levels: four phonics levels (covering Letters and Sounds Phases 2 to 5) and six book bands (Pink through to Orange).

This title introduces readers to the McLaren 12C, covering its history, unique features, and defining characteristics. This title features informative sidebars, detailed infographics, vivid photos, and a glossary.

This title introduces readers to the Porsche 918 Spyder, covering its history, unique features, and defining characteristics. This title features informative sidebars, detailed infographics, vivid photos, and a glossary.

Offers readers a close-up look at choppers. With colorful spreads featuring fun facts, sidebars, labeled diagrams, and a "How It Works" feature, the book provides a thrilling overview of this exciting vehicle.

"The Jerrie Mock Story is the rewarding tale of a feisty woman who not only followed her dream, but made it happen." - Dorothy S. Cochrane, curator, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum In this biography for middle-grade readers, Nancy Roe Pimm tells the story of Geraldine "Jerrie" Mock, the first woman to fly solo around the world. In her trusty Cessna, The Spirit of Columbus-also known as Charlie-she traveled from Columbus, Ohio, on an eastward route that totaled nearly twenty-three thousand miles and took almost a month. Overcoming wind, ice, mechanical problems, and maybe even sabotage, Mock persevered. Mock caught the aviation bug at seven years old, when she rode in a Ford Trimotor plane with her parents. In high school, she displayed a talent for math and science, and she was the only woman in her aeronautical engineering classes at Ohio State University. Although she then settled into domestic life, she never lost her interest in flying. What began as a joking suggestion from her husband to fly around the world prompted her to pursue her childhood dream. But the dream became a race, as another woman, Joan Merriam Smith, also sought to be the first to circle the globe. Even though Mock beat Smith and accomplished what her heroine Amelia Earhart had died trying to do, her feat was overshadowed by the Vietnam War and other world events. Now, Pimm introduces Mock to a new generation of adventurers.

You don't need kids to tell you that Making is Fun. Just get them in a room with simple projects, common household tools and utensils, inexpensive supplies, and their imagination. All young people need is an interest in how the world works, the right tools to explore, and some projects to serve as jumping-off points for their explorations. Make: Simple Flying Things offers five flight projects that are easy to build, inexpensive, and expandable--just add imagination! In this book, you'll make: Paper and rubber-band airplane Paper and foam rockets Rip-cord helicopter and rubber band roto-copter Rocket glider plus roto-copter recovery

This fun new book features the trucks kids idolize, from pickups to big rigs. Amazing photographs show different types of trucks, including Aussie road trains, tankers, rescue, and construction trucks, and explains what they were built to do. A brief look at the past reveals how trucks evolved from simple, steam-powered vehicles to the large, commercial, load-bearing vehicles of today. Other topics include - the components of a truck, including heavy-duty suspension, multiple wheels, and transmission systems - monster trucks - truck racing, including Super Truck and NASCAR's Craftsman Truck series - pickup and off-road trucks - waste management trucks, including garbage and recycling - hot rod trucks - emergency trucks, such as ambulance and fire trucks

On November 19, 1916, at 8:25 a.m., Ruth Law took off on a flight that aviation experts thought was doomed. She set off to fly nonstop from Chicago to New York City. Sitting at the controls of her small bi-plane, exposed to the elements, Law battled fierce winds and numbing cold. When her engine ran out of fuel, she glided for two miles and landed at Hornell, New York. Even though she fell short of her goal, she had broken the existing cross-country distance record. And with her plane refueled, she got back in the air and headed for New York City where crowds waited to greet her. In this well-researched, action-packed picture book, Heather Lang and Raul Colon recreate a thrilling moment in aviation history. Includes an afterword with archival photographs.

This title introduces readers to the features, brand history, and sponsored motocross athletes of Suzuki dirt bikes. This title includes informative sidebars, detailed infographics, vivid photos, and a glossary.

This title introduces readers to the Ford Mustang Shelby GT350, covering its history, unique features, and defining characteristics. This title features informative sidebars, detailed infographics, vivid photos, and a glossary.

This title introduces readers to the Chevrolet Corvette Z06, covering its history, unique features, and defining characteristics. This title features informative sidebars, detailed infographics, vivid photos, and a glossary.

This informative title examines how transportation contributes to climate change, how improving transportation could help slow the crisis, and the current challenges scientists face. This book also includes a table of contents, an infographic, informative sidebars, a "That's Amazing" special feature, quiz questions, a glossary, additional resources, and an index. This Focus Readers title is at the Navigator level, aligned to reading levels of grades 3-5 and interest levels of grades 4-7.

This book reveals the fascinating history of cars, from when they were first invented to the latest innovations, as well as the changes they've created in people's lives. The book also includes a table of contents, fun facts, a That's Amazing special feature, quiz questions, a glossary, additional resources, and an index. This Focus Readers title is at the Beacon level, aligned to reading levels of grades 2-3 and interest levels of grades 3-5.

This highly popular and long-running series has been revamped for a new generation of readers, with a clean, crisp redesign and colourful covers. The series explores questions that young readers ask about the world around them in an unrivalled child-friendly style. The conversational format is perfect for delivering solid information in a natural, amusing and imaginative way.

This book introduces readers to the world's fastest cars, highlighting record-setting cars from the past, as well as the technology and innovations that helped them achieve those speeds. Short paragraphs of easy-to-read text are paired with plenty of colorful photos to make reading engaging and accessible. The book also includes a table of contents, fun facts, sidebars, comprehension questions, a glossary, an index, and a list of resources for further reading. Apex books have low reading levels (grades 2-3) but are designed for older students, with interest levels of grades 3-7.

This book introduces readers to the world's fastest trains, highlighting record-setting trains from the past, as well as the technology and innovations that helped them achieve those speeds. Short paragraphs of easy-to-read text are paired with plenty of colorful photos to make reading engaging and accessible. The book also includes a table of contents, fun facts, sidebars, comprehension questions, a glossary, an index, and a list of resources for further reading. Apex books have low reading levels (grades 2-3) but are designed for older students, with interest levels of grades 3-7.

This book is designed to support poor readers by giving them overtly adult material but where the language has been calculated using a reading age scale on a computer program. Read how Adolf Hitler himself wanted a cheap, simple car to be mass produced for the new German road system. Many people are also amazed to find that it was Ferdinand Porsche of Porsche 911 fame who was the lead engineer on the car. In German, ` Volks' means Folk or people and `wagen' means car so the Volkswagen was literally the ` peoples' car'. We will also read how Major Ivan Hirst from the British Army had to remove a bomb at the end of the second world war, from the VW factory and get production going again. The book will cover the similar car that was a secret weapon against the Nazis in the Second world war and the financial settlement between Volkswagen and the Czechoslovakian car company Tatra. Finally we read of Herbie the VW that could drive itself in the Herbie movies and how the car had to be adapted for a rear seat driver with a camera. The material in this book should be accessible to an year 8 student and as such should be ideal reading material for the vast majority of students in schools and F.E. colleges. This book is in a series on old technology and is specifically designed to develop reading in teenage males. We were asked by a Midlands College to provide something that encouraged young males to read, since they were literally not reading anything. Since many of them will be weak readers, the book also comes with an audio recording on a disc. The student can then, if they need to, listen to the audio as they read. This will be of interest to schools, colleges and academies where there are reluctant readers.