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Author
Publisher
Avalon Travel
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A guide to traveling the United States on two-lane highways, featuring descriptions of eleven routes that cross the country from north to south, and from east to west, highlighting the attractions along each route, and including over 125 maps.
3) Road maps
Author
Series
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A guide to understanding road maps, explaining what maps are, how to use the legend, how to understand scale and direction, and how to use the grid. Includes a look at road maps of the future.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Traces the history of the Boston Post Road, which connected New York City and Boston and evolved into the nation's first major highway system, and describes the road's importance to the political, economic, and social development of the United States.
10) The highway
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
When two teens go missing during a clandestine car trip, alcoholic investigator Cody Hoyt is convinced by his son and former partner to search for answers before discovering similar disappearances on a remote Montana highway that point to the work of a serial killer.
13) Home
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
A family enjoys an idyllic existence in their isolated, ramshackle home, which edges onto an abandoned highway. Almost entirely cut off from society at large, they forge their own Utopia, but everything changes when city trucks roll in to complete the road's construction, allowing rush hour traffic to start rumbling by. Stars Isabelle Huppert (The piano teacher).
14) Curiosities of Hampton Roads: Ghostly Colonists, Hidden Crypts, the Black Swan of Westover and More
Author
Publisher
Arcadia Publishing Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The history of Hampton Roads is as deep as the waters that surround it. From some of the first settlers in the New World to the formation of the nation, Virginias Tidewater is rich in curious tales of legends and lore. In the Southside, the famed pirate Blackbeard was beheaded by Captain Maynard of Hampton. Captain John Smith was a part of the first governing body in America formed in Jamestown. The nations oldest mental institution still stands in...
15) Wherever you go
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and rhyming text follow a young rabbit as he leaves home on a journey, discovering the joys of different kinds of roads and what they may bring--including a way back home.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Boston's largest urban renewal undertaking in modern history draws Carlotta into an undercover gig at the site. It comes at the request of a disgruntled hardhat who suspects the multibillion-dollar project has set off a groundswell of graft, kickbacks, and fraud. The case hasn't unearthed anything but dirt, so Carlotta is tempted into moonlighting on another: a Beacon Street socialite who's deeply concerned about her vanishing tenant, a dog groomer...
Author
Series
Publisher
Arcadia Publishing Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In 1755, Major General Edward Braddock and two army regiments set out from Alexandria with the objective of capturing Fort Duquesne, near present-day Pittsburgh. To transport their sizable train of artillery and wagons, they first had to build a road across the rugged Appalachian Mountains. It was almost 289 treacherous miles from Alexandria, Virginia, by way of Fort Cumberland in Maryland and on to the French fort; the road they built was one of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Tom Carroll takes his place as head of the family after his father dies fighting for the Union; but his job at the local ironworks, where he helps build an iron ship for the Union army, and his loyalty come into question when he is approached by Confederate spies to sell secrets about the ship to the South.
Author
Publisher
The Kent State University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The story of America's first government-sponsored highway The National Road was the first major improved highway in the United States built by the federal government. Built between 1811 and 1837, this 620-mile road connected the Potomac and Ohio Rivers and was the main avenue to the West. Roger Pickenpaugh's comprehensive account is based on detailed archival research into documents that few scholars have examined, including sources from the National...
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