The world's toughest machines
(2011)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
E/629.046/SCHMAUSS,J
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Chicago, Ill. : Raintree, [2011]
©2011
©2011
DESCRIPTION
32 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781410938787 (hc), 1410938786 (hc), 9781410938862 (pb), 1410938867 (pb), 9781406216905 (hbk.), 1406216909 (hbk.), 9781410938787
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Tough machines -- Move that dirt! -- One tough vehicle -- Dig it! -- Through the Earth -- A safe ride -- Mine-resistant trucks -- A mighty tank -- It's a monster! -- Down in the sea -- Out in space -- Into the tornado -- Test yourself
From bulletproof cars to military tanks, this book gives facts and figures on the toughest vehicles in the world, and shows how these extreme machines help us do jobs that less substantial vehicles can't do
Lexile: 640
NC 640
NC640L
Decoding demand: 86 (very high) Semantic demand: 91 (very high) Syntactic demand: 75 (high) Structure demand: 88 (very high)