Desafío: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles...and more

Choose one or more of these books to complete the challenge.

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Historical plane, train, ship, and car one an aged-paper background.
Historical plane, train, ship, and car one an aged-paper background.
Task

Travel through time and read one or more of these classics:

  • Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
  • 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
  • Treasure Island By Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Murder on the Orient Express By Agatha Christie
  • Death in the Clouds By Agatha Christie
  • Chitty Chitty Bang Bang by Ian Fleming

Choose your own reading voyage and read:

  • Any non-fiction book about ships or submarines
  • Any non-fiction book about airplanes, zeppelins, or hot air balloons
  • Any non-fiction book about cars
  • Any non-fiction book about trains

Travel below the surface of the ocean with one of these books:

  • Submarines and submersibles by Deborah Lock
  • How submarines work by Walt Brody, Walt
  • Who was Jacques Cousteau? By Nico Medina
  • Submarines by Stuart Murray, Stuart
  • Manfish a story of Jacques Cousteau by Jennifer Berne

Take to the skies and choose one or more of these flight-themed books:

  • Amelia Earhart by Ma Isabel (María Isabel) Sánchez Vegara
  • Amelia Earhart by Andrew (Andy) Prentice
  • Who was Amelia Earhart? By Kate Boehm Jerome
  • Pete the cat Pete the Cat and the Wright Brothers by Kim Dean
  • Who were the Wright Brothers? By James Buckley Jr.
  • Flying machines : how the Wright brothers soared by Benjamin A Wilgus

Prefer to stay above water? Choose one or more of these ship-themed books:

  • Ships by Moira Butterfield
  • Pirate ships by Kenny Abdo
  • 21st century ships by Philip Wolny
  • I survived. 01 : I survived the sinking of the Titanic, 1912 Lauren Tarshis

Choose one or more of these Train-themed books:

  • The Transcontinental Railroad by Christine Zuchora-Walske
  • The transcontinental railroad : crossing the divide by Andy Hirsch
  • Connecting the coasts : the race to build the transcontinental railroad by Norma Lewis

Learn about the history of automobiles with one of these car-themed books:

  • Automobile by Julie Murray
  • Car : the definitive visual history of the automobile
  • Are we there yet? : the American automobile, past, present, and driverless by Daniel M. (Daniel Marc) Albert
  • Cars : engines that move you by Dan Zettwoch
  • Cars then and now by Cynthia Kennedy Henzel

Float through the sky with one of these books:

  • Hot air balloons by Joanne Mattern
  • How do hot air balloons work? By Buffy Silverman
  • Milestones of flight : from hot-air balloons to SpaceShipOne by Tim Grove
  • Up and away! : how two brothers invented the hot-air balloon by Jason Henry
  • Hot air : the (mostly) true story of the first hot-air balloon ride by Marjorie Priceman
  • I survived. 13 : The Hindenburg disaster, 1937 by Lauren Tarshis
  • Hindenburg by Jenny Fretland VanVoorst
  • What Was the Hindenburg? By Janet Pascal