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Vehicles & Machines Books for Ages 8–11 – Wonderlit | Wonderlit

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Vehicles & Machines Books for Ages 8–11

Vehicle and machine books at chapter book age get more technical and more historical. How trains changed America, how planes work, the engineering behind the machines that built the modern world. These 2,794 books satisfy the child who wants real information.

2,794 books

Cover of Come With Me: Poems for a Journey

Come With Me: Poems for a Journey

Naomi Shihab Nye

Lyric poems and abstract collages capture the quiet wonder and big emotions of traveling through the world and the journ

Cover of Rescuing the Declaration of Independence: How We Almost Lost the Words that Built America

Rescuing the Declaration of Independence: How We Almost Lost the Words that Built America

Anna Crowley Redding

A quick-thinking clerk named Stephen Pleasonton races to save the nation’s most precious documents as the British army m

Cover of Átomos y moléculas (Atoms and Molecules)

Átomos y moléculas (Atoms and Molecules)

Maria Dolores Martinez i No

Charts, photographs, and clear sidebars pull back the curtain on the invisible world of atoms and molecules to reveal ho

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Cover of The Magic of Clay

The Magic of Clay

Collage-style art explains the chemistry of ceramics and the process of molding, glazing, and heating clay into art.

Cover of Ernő Rubik and His Magic Cube

Ernő Rubik and His Magic Cube

The world’s most famous puzzle began with a Hungarian inventor's curiosity and a desire to see how pieces could move wit

Cover of Mountain Town

Bonnie Geisert, Arthur Geisert

Follow a year in the life of a Rocky Mountain town founded by gold prospectors to see how its 19th-century roots still s

Cover of Lunch at the Zoo: What Zoo Animals Eat and Why

Lunch at the Zoo: What Zoo Animals Eat and Why

Peek behind the zoo gates to see how nutritionists research and prepare specialized meals for every animal, from the sma

Cover of The Adventure Girls in the Air

The Adventure Girls #2

The Adventure Girls in the Air

A group of daring friends takes to the skies in the 1930s to navigate high-flying adventures and aerial mysteries.

Cover of Tom Swift and His Ultrasonic Cycloplane

Tom Swift Jr. #11

Tom Swift and His Ultrasonic Cycloplane

Victor Appleton II

Young inventor Tom Swift pushes the limits of science as he pilots an experimental ultrasonic craft into a high-speed ad

Cover of Tom Swift on the Phantom Satellite

Tom Swift Jr. #9

Tom Swift on the Phantom Satellite

Victor Appleton II

Inventive hero Tom Swift blasts off on a high-tech mission to investigate a phantom satellite in this classic adventure

Cover of Tom Swift and His Deep Sea Hydrodome

Tom Swift Jr. #15

Tom Swift and His Deep Sea Hydrodome

Victor Appleton II

High-tech inventions and deep-sea mystery collide in this classic tale of a young inventor pushing the limits of science

Cover of Bécassine alpiniste

Bécassine alpiniste

For the child who feels like a fish out of water in new places. Follow a well-meaning housemaid as she navigates high so

Cover of S.O.S. Bobomobile!

Melvin Spitznagle #2

S.O.S. Bobomobile!

An inventive boy and an elderly scientist team up to build a bobomobile and embark on a grand expedition to find the leg

Cover of Amusement Park

You will learn how physics creates the thrills behind every spin, bounce, and stomach-dropping drop at the amusement par

Cover of The Cable Car and the Dragon

The Cable Car and the Dragon

A San Francisco cable car gets bored with the same old route and decides to turn toward Chinatown just in time for a vib

Cover of Military Helicopters

Military Machines at Work

Military Helicopters

Big, clear photographs reveal how these powerful machines fly and work in the sky.

Cover of U.S. Navy Destroyers

U.S. Navy Destroyers

Martha E. H. Rustad

High-tech weapons, complex designs, and specialized crews power the U.S. Navy destroyers as they carry out vital mission

Cover of Gears Go, Wheels Roll

Simple Machines to the Rescue #1

Gears Go, Wheels Roll

Watch how machines move through simple English and Spanish text paired with clear photos of the mechanical world in acti

Cover of Truck Drivers

Community Helpers

Karen Bush Gibson

Huge rigs and long hauls come to life as you learn about the training, the trucks, and the people who keep the country m

Cover of Amazing Aircraft

SeeMore Readers

Amazing Aircraft

Humanity's journey into the clouds comes to life in this accessible look at the fascinating history of flight and aircra

Cover of The World's Fastest Motorcycles

The World's Fastest

The World's Fastest Motorcycles

Exotic and unusual supercharged bikes roar to life through large photos and easy-to-read chapters on the world’s fastest

Cover of Attack Vehicles at Sea: Ships, Submarines, and Patrol Boats

Military Machines in the War on Terrorism

Attack Vehicles at Sea: Ships, Submarines, and Patrol Boats

High-impact photos reveal how massive ships, stealthy submarines, and swift patrol boats use cutting-edge technology to

Cover of Fly the Hot Ones

Fly the Hot Ones

Steven Lindblom

Buckle up for a journey through the cockpit, from the gentle Piper Cub to the thunderous power of an F-14 Tomcat fighter

Cover of Extreme Machines

Extreme Machines

Christopher Maynard

The most fascinating thing you will learn is how humans build machines to reach the deepest parts of the ocean, the high

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