Save the Crash Test Dummies
Save the Crash Test Dummies
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Save the Crash Test Dummies

Written by Jennifer Swanson & illustrated by TeMika Grooms
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8 - 12
Reading age
104
Page count
144
Words per page
920L
Lexile measure
Oct 1, 2019
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This entertaining book navigates readers through the history of car production and offers a front‐seat view of the science and engineering that makes the world’s most important vehicle safe for us to drive. Cars take us to work. To school. To soccer practice. To the grocery store and home again. Can you imagine a world without them? It’s not easy! One of the reasons we can use cars so much in our everyday lives is because they are safe to drive. But that hasn’t always been the case. If it weren’t for the experiments conducted over decades that involved all kinds of crash test volunteers–dead, alive, animal, or automated–cars as we know them might not be around. And then how would you get to school? Filled with fun four‐wheeled nuggets of history and explanations of how cars actually work, this nonfiction book from former science educator and award-winning author Jennifer Swanson will appeal to lovers of all things that go and readers who are interested in getting in under the hood and seeing how things work.

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carshistorycars and truckstransportationtechnologyhow things work and are madeinventionsvehiclesconstructionsafety

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    Book Details

    ISBN
    9781682630228
    Publication Date
    October 1, 2019
    Publisher
    Peachtree Publishing Company
    Page Count
    104
    Words Per Page
    144
    Audience
    Middle Grade
    Reading Age
    8 - 12 years
    Lib. of Congress (LCCN)
    2019017782
    Lexile® Level
    920L
    Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
    ~V
    ATOS® Book Level
    6.4
    Accelerated Reader® Points
    2
    Accelerated Reader Quiz
    504530
    Accelerated Reader Interest Level
    MG

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