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Twelve-year-old Frankie Joe Huckaby, forced to live with the father he never knew, a stepmother, and four half-brothers in Illinois, starts a delivery service to finance his escape back to his mother in Texas, not realizing he is making a better life for himself than he ever had with her.
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"A Wall Street Journal reporter travels the globe to tell the story behind the misleadingly simple phrase online shoppers increasingly take for granted: "arriving today." From factory laborers in Vietnam to longshoremen at the port of LA to truckers crawling our interstate highways to robots lurking in Amazon's "dark warehouses," here is an eye-opening investigation of the way online commerce is reshaping the globe, rewriting the rules of business,...
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Truck Trouble is a beautifully designed reader about the troubles of a truck driver making special deliveries -- will the parcels get there on time? Children will find out about a truck driver's day, from loading parcels to getting through traffic and thunderstorms to making someone's day with a special parcel!
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Nothing's rougher than a Canadian winter . . . except maybe one that never ends! It's been nine years since an accident at a nuclear power plant plunged Montreal into an eternal winter; the city is now blanketed 365 days a year in radioactive snow. But life goes on for folks like Flavie Beaumont, a delivery courier on snowmobile who's carved out a pretty normal life for herself, despite mutant crushes, eclectic urban fauna, and unrelenting meteorological...
11) Delivery
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A rhyming look at a number of deliveries that take place in a day, from a morning newspaper delivery to people being transported by airplanes.
12) Arctic dogs
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Swifty, the Arctic Fox, works in the mailroom of the Arctic Blast Delivery Service but dreams of one day becoming a Top Dog. To prove himself worthy of the Top Dog role, Swifty secretly commandeers one of the sleds and delivers a mysterious package to a secret location. He stumbles upon a hidden fortress, where he comes face to face with Otto Von Walrus, a blubbery evil genius. He discovers Otto Von Walrus’ plan to drill beneath Arctic surface...
14) The big mix-up!
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"Meet Mike, a helpful hedgehog who lives in the town of Happy River. Although helpful, sometimes he gets involved in some silly mix-ups, like delivering ants instead of pants and pigs instead of wigs!"--
16) The lost package
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A tour of the busy work that takes place at post offices is depicted through the journey of a lost package that receives a little help reaching its destination, proving that distance cannot keep loved ones apart.
17) The milkman
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In the early, early morning, the milkman makes his rounds, helping his neighbors in a variety of ways.
18) The delivery
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"A day in the life of the Delivery Boy, a recently arrived political refugee who must peddle his way to 5-star customer ratings-and, perhaps, freedom."--
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"Follow the shipping process as a book makes its way from printer to reader in this story about one special delivery. After a long journey over land and across the ocean, involving factories and warehouses, vans, trains, container ships, drivers, captains, postal workers, and booksellers, a picture book finally arrives in the hands of [a] child."--