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"When Olive Dennis was young, girls were expected to be sewing, cooking, and cleaning. But Olive was busy imagining, designing, and building everything from a wooden dollhouse to a model streetcar with working parts. When she grew up, Olive continued to defy expectations, earning a civil engineering degree and becoming the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad's first female engineer. Her genius for inventing improvements based on her keen observations of passengers'...
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A book for beginning readers, chock-full of vibrant illustrations that tell stories without the use of words, depicting tons of train rides throughout a busy day--from boarding the platform to wandering the aisles, surveying the pretty scenery whizzing by, and more.
7) Trains
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"Learn fascinating facts about some of the world's most powerful machines in Mega Machines"--
11) Los trenes
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El tren es una de las máquinas más grandes sobre la tierra. El tren más largo de la historia medía más de 4 millas (6 kilómetros) de largo. Aprende más sobre estas máquinas poderosas en Los trenes, uno de los libros audiovisuales de AV2.
Trains are some of the biggest machines on land. The longest train ever was over 4 miles (6 kilometers) long. Learn more about these mighty machines in Trains, an AV2 media enhanced book.