Frank Carlson Library

Told in rhyming text, seven new road-building machines set out on a job--building, rolling, paving, and painting a brand new road.

Route 66 is a remarkable road. It was one of the first US highways! In Building Route 66, young readers will find out more about this engineering marvel and how it was built.

Presents an illustrated account of bookseller Henry Knox's heroic contributions during the Revolutionary War, describing how he dragged fifty-nine cannons to Boston across 225 miles filled with danger and hardship.

When Bob the builder is too sick to work, his assistant Wendy helps the trucks fix the road for him.

Describes the planning and construction of a new road.

A vehicle is a machine that moves people and things from one place to another. Some vehicles also do work. Road building vehicles are needed to make the streets and highways so that other vehicles can travel on. Many different vehicles are needed to build a road and each does a different job. Some break up the ground to make pathways for new roads or repair old ones. Other vehicles load materials to make roads still others pave the roads. Learn about...

Illustrations and rhyming text invite the reader to help Toad learn that the road is no place to play.

Discusses the Monitor and the Virginia, ironclad warships that confronted each other at the Civil War battle at Hampton Roads, Virginia, detailing what became of the ships after the battle and how the sunken Monitor was later investigated by scientists.