Fast and cool cars / by Leon Gray.
Material type: TextSeries: DK adventuresPublisher: New York, New York : DK, Penguin Random House, 2015Edition: First American editionDescription: 127 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1465429352
- 1465429360
- 9781465429353
- 9781465429360
- Fast & cool cars
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book | Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's NonFiction | 629.222 G779 | Available | 33111008105112 | ||||
Children's Book | Main Library | Children's NonFiction | 629.222 G779 | Checked out | 06/21/2024 | 33111008060952 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Find out about different cars past, present and future. Explore recent manufacturing and engineering developments with environmentally friendly fuels and investigate their inner workings.
DK Adventures is a nonfiction series for kids ages 8-11 featuring visually rich theme spreads, and fascinating facts that help kids build their skills in vocabulary, grammar, comprehension, and critical thinking while developing a love of reading. Designed to keep interest high, build knowledge, and enrich the reading experience with fascinating background information, each title in the DK Adventures series is filled with information yet eminently accessible, and available in a wide range of kid-favorite topics including rain forests, animals, rocks, and shipwrecks.
Includes index.
Cars, go, go, go! -- Cars for everyone -- Car design -- Car engines -- Guzzling gas -- Motorcycles -- Hybrid cars -- Solar power -- Hydrogen power -- Racing machines -- The future -- Make a magnetic car -- Fast and cool cars quiz.
Presents general information about automobiles, including their history, how they work, how they use gasoline for power, alternatives to pure internal combustion engines, racing, and their future.