The Mice and the Travel Machine


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The mice who live in a shoe decide they need a holiday. With an old bowler hat found in D. Rat's junk yard, they build an amazing travel machine and set off on a round-the-world trip. But D.Rat is not far behind and is determined that the travel machine will be his!




The Mice and the Clockwork Bus


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The dreadful D. Rat runs the only bus service for miles. It's far too expensive and horribly dangerous. "We take our lives in our paws every time we ride in it,' said Pa. So the resourceful mice (who live in a shoe) do the only possible thing-they build their own bus... And you'll never guess what they make it out of!




Time Machine Trouble


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Timeless cheese sticks! Professor Maximilian Mousemover just arrived in Muskrat City ... in a time machine! Tony Sludge's great-great-grandfather Butch Sludge is visiting from the past, too, and he's up to no good. The Heromice must travel through time to save the rodents of the past - and the future - from the Sewer Rats.




Work and More Work


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Tom lives in the countryside in the mid 1800s and he’s curious — what is it like in the town, the city and the world beyond? It’s all “work and more work,” everyone tells him. Determined to find out for himself, Tom sets off with a bit of bread and cheese in a bundle... He encounters crowded marketplaces, bustling wharves and storms on the high seas. In China he sees how tea is made; in India he watches men make deep blue dye from indigo; in Ceylon he marvels at the skill of cinnamon peelers. Eventually, he returns home with stories and gifts, showing his parents the riches to be found all over the world. Includes an illustrated afterword about the different kinds of work mentioned in the story when, in the days before steam, nothing moved except through the power of wind, water and muscle.




The Mice Who Lived in a Shoe


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A large family of mice lives in an old shoe which leaks when it rains and wobbles when the wind blows . . .so the mice work out a wonderful way to rebuild their home.




We Go on a City Bus


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"What to expect from a trip on a city bus."--




Theo the Flea


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Theo dreams of becoming a great explorer like his grandfather. After hearing his grandfather's tales of a mysterious place called Leo, Theo sets off to go where no flea had gone before. SEL connections in this story include self-confidence, self-discipline, self-motivation, goal setting, analyzing situations, evaluating, and reflecting.




Close to the Machine


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With a New Introduction by Jaron Lanier A Salon Best Book of the Year In 1997, the computer was still a relatively new tool---a sleek and unforgiving machine that was beyond the grasp of most users. With intimate and unflinching detail, software engineer Ellen Ullman examines the strange ecstasy of being at the forefront of the predominantly male technological revolution, and the difficulty of translating the inherent messiness of human life into artful and efficient code. Close to the Machine is an elegant and revelatory mediation on the dawn of the digital era.




Machine Design


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Targeting Writing Across the Curriculum


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Targeting across the curriculum: book 3, upper primary.