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Language
English
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Five weeks ago Carly Drake stood at her grandfather's grave. Now she's burying Drake Trucking's top driver, and the cops have no leads on the hijacking or murder. Faced with bankruptcy, phone threats and the fear of failure, Carly has to team up with the last man she wants to owe--Lincoln Cain. Cain is magnetic, powerful, controlling--and hiding more than one secret. He promised Carly's granddad he'd protect her. The old man took a chance on him when...
2) Big rigs
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
380L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Explains what big rigs are, looks at the different parts of the giant trucks, and shows various types of big rigs.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Academy Award winners Juliette Binoche and Morgan Freeman lead this riveting thriller set in the trucking industry and its seamy underbelly of human trafficking. To save the life of her brother, Sally, a truck driver, reluctantly agrees to smuggle illicit cargo: a girl named Leila. As Sally and Leila begin a danger-fraught journey across state lines, a dogged FBI operative sets out on their trail, determined to do whatever it takes to terminate a...
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Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Engaging images accompany information about ice road truckers. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--Provided by publisher.
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Language
English
Description
A rollicking assessment of life on the Big Slab by a decades-experienced long-haul trucker reflects on the changing realities of the working class as witnessed during journeys ranging from the I-95 Powerland and the Florida Everglades to the truck stops of the Midwest and the Rocky Mountains.
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Language
English
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Description
"About 70 percent of all goods transported in the United States are transported by trucks. Truck drivers are responsible for transporting food and other products across the country to the people who need them. They work long hours and need to have special training to drive their huge trucks. Truck drivers keep businesses going and make sure we get the things we need. Instructive, colorful photographs of truck drivers on the job help readers make meaningful...
7) Trucks
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A simple look at trucks and the technology behind them.
8) Big rigs
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
370L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This photo-illustrated book for early readers tells about tractor-trailers, or semis, and how these large trucks deliver goods we use every day"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Give readers an inside look at the dangerous job of ice road truckers. Additional features include a table of contents, a Fast Facts spread, critical-thinking questions, a phonetic glossary, an index, a selected bibliography, an introduction to the author, and sources for further research.
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Language
English
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Is this playboy ready for the wildest ride of his life? Agreeing a PR stunt would be good for business, trucking CEO Gannon Steele invites reporter Delphine Ryland to hitch a ride cross-country. Soon, he's keeping his eyes on his sexy passenger instead of on the destination ahead, and when the trip turns from strictly business to strictly pleasure, the consequences might be more than this rough-and-ready bachelor can handle...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The highest-rated reality show ever to hit the History channel, Ice Road Truckers follows the heart-pounding adventures of the tough-as-nails truckers who risk peril every day to deliver goods and supplies in Alaska and across Canada's frozen north. Alex shares tales of his adventures--and misadventures--in the north, and explain, in his own entertaining voice, how he got to where he is today--working class hero, bona-fide celebrity, and the improbable...
14) Trucks
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes a variety of trucks and their uses.
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
Español
Description
On May 14, 2003, a familiar risk-filled journey, taken by hopeful Mexican immigrants attempting to illegally cross into the United States, took a tragic turn. Inside a sweltering truck abandoned in Texas, authorities found at least 74 people packed into a "human heap of desperation." After months of investigation, a 25-year-old Honduran-born woman named Karla Chavez was found responsible for leading the human trafficking cell that led to this grisly...
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