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Transportation
 If I Built a Car
by Chris Van Dusen
Jack's dad's car is okay--but it is just a car. Nothing like the car Jack has planned! His car will have bright colors, chrome, a snack bar, a pool, and a robot. It will be a car that drives, dives, flies and floats! Wow! What kind of car would you build?
 Night Boat to Freedom
by Margot Theis Raven
It was a great ship that brought Granny Judith into slavery and it is a small boat rowed by 12 year old John that transports so many to freedom. On dark nights John rows folks from the slave state of Kentucky to a "station" in the free state of Ohio - to a station on the Underground Railroad, which isn't really a railroad at all!
 Sally Jean, the Bicycle Queen
by Cari Best
Sally Jean's first bicycle ride was behind her mom, then her very own tricycle, when she was four she got a big bike with training wheels and finally just two wheels to ride on. But now Sally Jean is too big for her bike "Flash"! What will she do now?
 The Journey of Oliver K. Woodman
by Darcy Pattison
Tameka wants Uncle Ray to visit her in California, but he is too busy right now--so he decides to send his friend Oliver K. Woodman instead. But Oliver is no ordinary man--he is a man of wood. So, with a note in his backpack and a smile on his wooden face--Oliver waits by the side of the road in South Carolina for a ride. Will he make it?
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