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This hands-on STEM kit lets young builders construct a gyroscopically balanced monorail robot with snap-together track segments, bringing modern rail engineering concepts to life through building and experimentation.

In bouncy verse with vivid illustrations, this picture book takes young readers back to the dramatic race to complete America's first transcontinental railroad, from rocky outcrops to snowbound mountains.

Poet Angela Johnson, a two-time Coretta Scott King Award winner, and artist Loren Long join forces in this quietly powerful picture book about a boy whose only escape from his cotton field is the passing trains that carry his dreams toward somewhere else.

Action-packed illustrations and text that whistles off the page tell the legend of railroad hero Casey Jones, who died at his post on April 30, 1900, keeping the train under control long enough to save every passenger aboard.

A Caldecott Medal winner and Sibert Honor Book, this richly detailed picture book immerses young readers in the sights, sounds, and sheer power of America's transcontinental railroad in its first thrilling summer of operation.