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Failures That Fueled Transportation

From the Set Fantastic Failures: From Flops to Fortune

The world might be a different place if people gave up on these transportation innovations after they first failed. Fantastic Failures: From Flops to Fortune takes readers through the unexpected origins of popular products and innovations. With a focus on persistence and creative thinking, this hi-lo series makes the case that failure might just be the first step to success.

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Interest Level Grade 5 - Grade 8
Reading Level Grade 3
Dewey 629.0409
Lexile 380L
ATOS Reading Level
Guided Reading Level L
Language English
Publisher 45th Parallel Press
Available Formats Reinforced book (9781668938270), Paperback (9781668939314), PDF (9781668942000), ePub (9781668940655), Hosted ebook (9781668944707), Kindle (9781668943359)
Copyright 2024
Number of Pages 32
Dimensions 7 x 9
Graphics Full-color photographs

School Library Journal - Failures That Fueled Transportation

Gr 5-8–The surprising starts and failures that launched entire industries and fields of study are highlighted in this series. Through history many experiments and inventions have had moments of disaster and triumph, from ­Play-Doh that was originally supposed to clean wallpaper (Favorite Toys) to how complaints about mushy fries made potato chips a reality (Delicious Food Mishaps). Longer paragraphs with short sentences are generally written at a third grade reading level. Each title has bolded vocabulary words, and some have a “Behind the Scenes,” and “Success Story” section, along with at least one “Flopped” section per book describing where an experiment or invention went wrong. End pages have a list of resources for additional reading, a glossary, and an index. Although the text can be dense at times, the paragraphs are informative. VERDICT Inspiring historic successes and failures for middle grade readers.

Author: Martin Gitlin

Martin Gitlin is an educational book author based in Connecticut. He won more than 45 awards as a newspaper sportswriter from 1991 to 2002. Included was a first-place award from the Associated Press for his coverage of the 1995 World Series. He has had more than 200 books published since 2006. Most of them were written for students.

Activities for further learning
Author/Illustrator biography
Glossary of key words
Index
Informative sidebars
Table of contents
Full-color photographs