How Cars Work

How Cars Work

442 ratings 4.6 out of 5 stars

Oct 11, 1999

Product Description How Cars Work is a completely illustrated primer describing the 250 most important car parts and how they work. This mini test book includes wonderfully simple line drawings and clear language to describe all the automotive systems as well as a glossary, index, and a test after each chapter. How Cars Work provides the basic vocabulary and mechanical knowledge to help a reader talk intelligently with mechanics understand shop manuals, and diagnosis car problems. Tom Newton guides the reader with a one topic per page format that delivers information in bite size chunks, just right for teenage boys. How Cars Work was the most stolen book at Kennedy High School in Richmond California! Teachers like our title and so do librarians. The History channel, Modern Marvels-2000, Actuality Productions, Inc is using How Cars Work to train staff for a documentary on automobiles. From the Publisher Author and illustrator Tom Newton is a school psychologist. How Cars Work was developed as a high interest mini-textbook for teens, but is also used by automotive service managers and mechanics to help customers understand repairs. This book can be found in adult literacy programs, high schools, and middle schools. How Cars Work makes it fun and easy to learn how cars work. From the Author "When I opened my tutoring center I could not find enough interesting reading material for my teenage students, especially the boys. So I started writing short descriptions about car parts aimed at improving reading comprehension. I used simple drawings to help students visualize and associate the car parts with the words. Eventually I had enough material for a complete book and, well, this is it!" About the Author Author Tom Newton owns and operates the Newton Learning Center, a tutoring service specilizing in reading problems. A school psychologist and former graduate student of Marshall McLuhhan Newton explains: "When I opened my tutoring center I couldn't find enough reading material for my teenage students, especially the boys. So I started writing short descriptions about car parts aimed at improving reading comprehension. I used simple drawings to help students visualize and associalte the car parts with the words. Eventually I had enough material for a complete car book and..well...this is it! Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. How Cars Work: * Explains the fundamentals of auto mechanics * Describes the 250 most important car parts and how they work * Contains 96 pages, seven chapters, an index, and a glossary * Uses a "one topic per page" format Each Chapter: * Describes a major automotive system * Begins with the general view, then discusses specific parts * Has a test at the end Each Page: * Describes a single topic, part, or system of parts * Has an illustration to identify and locate topic parts * Has text to explain how it all works How Cars Work: * Gives the reader a general understanding of mechanical devices * Allows the reader to understand automotive workshop manuals * Prepares the reader for beginning do-it-yourself car projects * Equips the reader for logically solving car problems

Again I bought this for my eight year old son, who always...and I mean ALWAYS asks questions that I have no idea (nor do I really care) about the answers. This is a good book, that shows a picture of the part and a description of how it works and what it does. Examples...