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Unconventional vehicles : forty-five of the strangest cars, trains, planes, submersibles, dirigibles, and rockets ever  Cover Image Book Book

Unconventional vehicles : forty-five of the strangest cars, trains, planes, submersibles, dirigibles, and rockets ever / by Michael Hearst ; illustrated by Hans Jenssen.

Hearst, Michael, 1972- (author.). Jenssen, Hans, 1963- (illustrator.).

Summary:

"In this illustrated compendium, readers will learn about forty-five of the strangest, most unconventional vehicles that have ever existed--from submersibles to dirigibles, and everything in between"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781452172866
  • ISBN: 1452172862
  • Physical Description: 97 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
  • Publisher: San Francisco : Chronicle Books, LLC, [2021]

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
Airboard personal hovercraft -- Airbus Beluga -- Airfish 8 -- Autoalveare -- Bathyscaphe Trieste -- Beer bike -- Bell X-1 -- Bertha : tunnel-boring machine -- Big wind -- Domicopter -- E-Ship 1 -- Elemment Palazzo -- Flying cathedral -- Flying jellyfish -- Gas-turbine motorcycle -- Graf Zeppelin airship-- Hammetschwand elevator -- Handcar -- Helios solar aircraft -- Human Cannonball truck -- Hyperloop -- HZ-1 aerocycle -- Jail wagon -- Jet pack -- Jet train -- Krupp Bagger 288 -- Liberty One steam-poweredrocket -- Lockheed XFV -- Monowheel -- Moon buggy -- OneWheel electric rideable -- Ostrich carriage -- Ripsaw -- Scubadoo -- Solar-powered race car -- Stoopidtaller -- Strollon stroller -- Swallowable wireless camera -- The turtle -- USS Zumwalt -- Voyager -- Walking truck -- Winston Wong ice vehicle -- Zamboni -- Zil-2906.
Target Audience Note:
Age 8-12.
Grades 4 to 6.
1080L Lexile
Subject: Motor vehicles > Miscellanea > Juvenile literature.

Available copies

  • 23 of 23 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
  • 4 of 4 copies available at Cass County.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 23 total copies.
Show Only Available Copies
Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Cass County Library-Bookmobile J 629.046 HEA 2021 (Text) 0002205463330 Juvenile Non-Fiction Available -
Cass County Library-Harrisonville J 629.046 HEA 2021 (Text) 0002205463306 Juvenile Non-Fiction Available -
Cass County Library-Northern Resource Center J 629.046 HEA 2021 (Text) 0002205463314 Juvenile Non-Fiction Available -
Cass County Library-Pleasant Hill J 629.046 HEA 2021 (Text) 0002205463322 Juvenile Non-Fiction Reshelving -


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