Gasoline
From the Set 21st Century Skills Library
Did you know that gasoline is made from petroleum that is extracted from deep inside Earth? And that the government of Saudi Arabia owns the world's largest petroleum corporation? Read this book to find out more about how petroleum is turned into gasoline and how that gasoline ends up in the tank of cars around the world.
| Interest Level | Grade 4 - Grade 8 |
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| Reading Level | Grade 6 |
| Dewey | 665.5/3827 |
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| ATOS Reading Level | 6.0 |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | Cherry Lake Publishing |
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| Available Formats | Reinforced book (9781602791213), PDF (9781602793507), ePub (9781631379369), Hosted ebook (9781602793507H), Kindle (9781631372278) |
| Copyright | 2008 |
| Number of Pages | 32 |
| Dimensions | 7.5 x 9.5 |
| Graphics |
Author: Kevin Cunningham
Kevin Cunningham is the author of several books, including biographies of Joseph Stalin and J. Edgar Hoover and a series on diseases in human history. He lives in Chicago.
- The Gasoline Age
- Drilling for Petroleum
- Pipelines and Supertankers
- The Refinery
- Fill ‘er Up
- Map
- Glossary
- For More Information
- Index
- About the Author
| Author/Illustrator biography |
| Glossary of key words |
| Index |
| Informative sidebars |
| Sources for further research |
| Table of contents |
