Smash, Crash, Topple, Roll!: The Inventive Rube Goldberg: A Life in Comics, Contraptions, and Six Simple Machines
by Catherine Thimmesh and Shanda McCloskey
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- Grade
- 1-6
- Genre
- Nonfiction
- Picture Book
Year Published 2025
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: Currently Not Available
- ATOS Reading Level: Currently Not Available
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- STEAM
- Subject Headings
- Simple machines--Comic books, strips, etc
- Goldberg, Rube, 1883-1970--Comic books, strips, etc
- Cartoonists--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature
- Goldberg, Rube, 1883-1970--Juvenile literature
- Cartoonists--United States--Comic books, strips, etc
- Simple machines--Juvenile literature
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Audio Name Pronunciation with Catherine Thimmesh
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Nonfiction Read and Respond Multi-Leveled Lesson
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Cultural Representation Reflection
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About the Authors 5
Audio Name Pronunciation with Catherine Thimmesh
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Author Interviews 2
Panel Discussion with Catherine Thimmesh
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Interview with Catherine Thimmesh
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Nonfiction Read and Respond Multi-Leveled Lesson
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Cultural Representation Reflection
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