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Save the crash-test dummies / Jennifer Swanson ; illustrated by TeMika Grooms.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Atlanta : Peachtree Publishing Company Inc., 2019Edition: First editionDescription: 104 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 27 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
  • cartographic image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781682630228
  • 1682630226
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Under the hood and behind the wheel -- Bumper cars -- Belt me in -- Hit the brakes -- Airbag away -- Look out behind you -- Robot drivers.
Summary: "This entertaining book navigates readers through the history of car production and offers a front-seat view of the science and engineering that makes the world's most important vehicle safe for us to drive."-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Dr. James Carlson Library Children's NonFiction 629.276 S972 Available 33111009427903
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's NonFiction 629.276 S972 Available 33111009540853
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Jump in the driver's seat for this entertaining, STEM-filled tour of the history of car production and the science and engineering that makes cars safe.
Cars take us to work. To school. To soccer practice. To the grocery store and home again. Can you imagine a world without them? It's not so easy!
One of the reasons we can use cars so much in our everyday lives is because they are safe to drive. But that hasn't always been the case. If it weren't for the experiments conducted over decades that involved all kinds of crash test volunteers―dead, alive, animal, or automated―cars as we know them might not be around. And then how would you get to school?
Filled with historical photographs, graphics and humorous illustrations, this nonfiction book from science educator and award-winning author Jennifer Swanson will appeal to lovers of all things that go and readers who are interested in getting under the hood and seeing how things work.

Ages 8-12.

Grades 4 to 6.

Includes index.

"This entertaining book navigates readers through the history of car production and offers a front-seat view of the science and engineering that makes the world's most important vehicle safe for us to drive."-- Provided by publisher.

Under the hood and behind the wheel -- Bumper cars -- Belt me in -- Hit the brakes -- Airbag away -- Look out behind you -- Robot drivers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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