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1) Eat my dust!: Henry Ford's first race

Author

Kulling, Monica

Series

Step Into Reading Level 3

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

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Relates the excitement caused by Henry Ford as he drove the "horseless carriage" he built, particularly when he decided to win a race to get money to build a new car that anyone could afford.

2) We'll race you, Henry: a story about Henry Ford

Author

Mitchell, Barbara

Series

Creative Minds Biography

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook

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A brief biography of Henry Ford with emphasis on how he came to develop fast, sturdy, and reliable racing cars that eventually gave him the idea for his Model T.

3) Super simple automobile projects: inspiring & educational science activities

Author

Kuskowski, Alex

Series

Amazing super simple inventions

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook

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Presents facts about automobiles and their history and provides car-based science experiments. --Publisher.

4) I Invented the Modern Age: The Rise of Henry Ford

Author

Snow, Richard

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook

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Growing up as a Michigan farm boy with a bone-deep loathing of farming, Ford intuitively saw the advantages of internal combustion. Resourceful and fearless, he built his first gasoline engine out of scavenged industrial scraps. It was the size of a sewing machine. From there, scene by scene, Richard Snow vividly shows Ford using his innate mechanical abilities, hard work, and radical imagination as he transformed American industry.

5) Henry Ford

Author

Davis, Lynn

Series

Amazing inventors and innovators

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook

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The car changed travel forever. Henry Ford started a car-making revolution. Kids can read this book to find out how Ford transformed America with his cars. They will learn how many cars Ford made before the Model T Ford. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Applied to STEM Concepts of Learning Principles. Super Sandcastle is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

6) Fordlandia: the rise and fall of Henry Ford's forgotten jungle city

Author

Grandin, Greg

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook

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The stunning, never-before-told story of the quixotic attempt to recreate small-town America in the heart of the Amazon, "Fordlandia" depicts a desperate quest to salvage the bygone America that the Ford factory system did much to dispatch.

7) The vagabonds: the story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison's ten-year road trip

Author

Guinn, Jeff

Series

Simon and Schuster nonfiction original hardcover

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook

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"A brilliant portrait of two American giants, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, and America entering the automobile age, told through the fascinating but little-known narrative of the summer road trips taken by Edison and Ford"-- The fascinating story of two American giants--Henry Ford and Thomas Edison--whose annual summer sojourns introduced the road trip to our culture and made the automobile an essential part of modern life, even as their own relationship...

8) Henry Ford

Author

Caldwell, Cyril Cassidy

Publisher

Messner

Pub. Date

1947

Language

English

9) Ford, the men and the machine

Author

Lacey, Robert

Publisher

Little, Brown

Pub. Date

c1986

Language

English

10) Henry Ford: automotive pioneer

Author

Montgomery, Elizabeth Rider

Series

Americans all

Publisher

Garrard Pub. Co

Pub. Date

[1969]

Language

English

Description

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A biography of the farm boy whose desire to tinker rather than do chores led to the design of the horseless carriage that eventually made him a billionaire.

11) Henry Ford

Author

Richards, Kenneth G

Series

People of destiny a humanities

Publisher

Childrens Press

Pub. Date

[1967]

Language

English

Description

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Biography of Henry Ford, whose genius and perseverance built the Ford Motor Company into a modern industrial giant. From the building of the big red racing car, "999," to the establishment of the Ford Foundation.

12) Henry Ford

Author

Caldwell, Cy

Publisher

Julian Messner

Pub. Date

1947

Language

English

Description

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This is the biography of one of America's greatest industrial pioneers whose genius revolutionized transportation, industry and world economics.

13) Henry Ford

Author

Harris, Jacqueline L

Publisher

Franklin Watts

Pub. Date

1984

Language

English

Description

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A biography of the American inventor and engineer who became a pioneer in the automobile industry and founded the Ford Motor Company.

14) Henry Ford, a pioneer in the automobile industry

Author

Kurland, Gerald

Series

Outstanding personalities no. 42

Publisher

SamHar Press

Pub. Date

1972

Language

English

Description

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A biography of the engineering genius whose pioneering efforts in industrial mass production made it possible for Americans to enjoy consumer items once regarded as luxuries.