On the Rails cover

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level 5.4
Points 1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Nonfiction
Word Count 3327
Points per Word 0.000301
Page Count 36
Points per Page 0.027778

Description

This book discusses different types of machines that travel on rails, how they work, their most important parts, how people use them, and examples of unusual machines for specialised tasks.

Quick Summary

Rail machines burst off the pages in this fact-packed book, revealing the engineering marvels that keep our world moving from steam giants to magnetic levitation trains. Readers will discover crazy specialized vehicles like snow-melting trains, underground digging giants, and floating trains that seem to defy gravity. If your kid loves the "Horrible Histories" series or devours weird fact books, they'll be obsessed with these rail machine secrets. Middle graders in grades 4 through 7 who enjoy hands-on science and Guinness World Records will find this book impossible to put down.