{"id":1082,"date":"2021-07-23T06:50:27","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T13:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/?p=1082"},"modified":"2021-07-22T10:34:08","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T17:34:08","slug":"unconventional-vehicles-forty-five-of-the-strangest-cars-trains-planes-submersibles-dirigibles-and-rockets-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/unconventional-vehicles-forty-five-of-the-strangest-cars-trains-planes-submersibles-dirigibles-and-rockets-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Unconventional Vehicles: Forty-Five of the Strangest Cars, Trains, Planes, Submersibles, Dirigibles, and Rockets EVER"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Unconventional Vehicles: Forty-Five of the Strangest Cars, Trains, Planes, Submersibles, Dirigibles, and Rockets EVER<\/em>
\nby Michael Hearst (Author) and Hans Jenssen (Illustrator)
\n@ Amazon<\/a> | Bookshop<\/a> | IndieBound<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Booktalk:<\/strong> Explore very strange modes of transportation (and listen to the song<\/a> for each one) in this middle grade book for vehicle fans, rocket inventors, budding space-and-aeronautics experts, and anyone who’s ever thought, “Why can’t<\/em> I ride a motorized suitcase through the airport?” (You CAN. See page 67!) <\/p>\n

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It’s STEM Friday!<\/a> (STEM<\/strong> is S<\/strong>cience, T<\/strong>echnology, E<\/strong>ngineering, and M<\/strong>athematics)<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2021 Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unconventional Vehicles: Forty-Five of the Strangest Cars, Trains, Planes, Submersibles, Dirigibles, and Rockets EVER by Michael Hearst (Author) and Hans Jenssen (Illustrator) @ Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound Booktalk: Explore very strange modes of transportation (and listen to the song for each one) in this middle grade book for vehicle fans, rocket inventors, budding space-and-aeronautics … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “Unconventional Vehicles: Forty-Five of the Strangest Cars, Trains, Planes, Submersibles, Dirigibles, and Rockets EVER”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem-friday-round-up"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pamhGQ-hs","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1255,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/road-trip-earth-explore-our-awesome-planet-from-core-to-shore-and-so-much-more\/","url_meta":{"origin":1082,"position":0},"title":"Road Trip Earth: Explore Our Awesome Planet, from Core to Shore and So Much More","author":"Anastasia Suen","date":"April 22, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Road Trip Earth: Explore Our Awesome Planet, from Core to Shore and So Much More by Molly Bloom (Author), Marc Sanchez (Author) and Sanden Totten (Author) @ Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound Booktalk: Did you ever wonder why volcanoes erupt? 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