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85) Building a home
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Shows how an old factory can become a brand-new apartment building, step-by-step, by introducing everything that is needed for the transformation, from the demolition of the old building through each stage of new construction.
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"I Want to Be a Builder gives young children a realistic insight into the working day of builders. Easy-to-read captions and color photographs of women and men from different cultures help children understand what's involved in being a builder. Young readers learn to respect the importance of doing a job well and appreciate the contributions these workers make to our life and the world around us."--
96) Jack's house
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Cumulative text reveals who was really responsible for the house that Jack claims to have built, and all of the trucks involved, from the bulldozer used to clear the land to the van that brought a hammock for the back yard.
99) Rock bottom
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"Isabelle "Izzy" Flanders and Yoko Akia are beginning a new project--a café that will be the cornerstone of a market village. Izzy knows just where to get the project off the ground: her old college classmate, Zoe Danfield, now vice president of a huge construction corporation. But buildings and bridges have been collapsing all over the world, causing hundreds of deaths, and Zoe suspects her firm's inferior foundation materials are the cause. Zoe...