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Author
Series
Questioneers volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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A young aspiring engineer must first conquer her fear of failure.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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A twelve-year-old boy, worried that his parents may divorce, discovers that an island in the middle of the lake where he is spending the summer is the testing grounds of the mysterious Dr. Libris, who may have invented a way to make the characters in books come alive.
Author
Series
Questioneers (Chapter books) volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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When Rosie is unable to invent a contraption to help one of Aunt Rose's Raucous Riveters friends, she calls on classmates Iggy Peck and Ada Twist to help.
Rosie is working with Aunt Rose and her friends, the Raucous Riveters, on designing a new invention, but when her designs keep failing, Rosie starts to lose hope until her friends Iggy and Ada offer some help
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Neglected by her father who spends all of his time building the ghost machine to bring her mother back from the dead, twelve-year-old Emmaline decides that the only way to bring her father back will be to make the ghost machine work, or destroy it forever.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Inspired by a teacher who believes each of them is a genius, a class of special-needs students invents something that could convince the whole school they are justifiably proud to be "Junkyard Wonders."
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a two-day train trip to enter his invention in the National Science Competition in Washington, D.C., fourteen-year-old Steven "Steel" Trapp, possessor of a remarkable photographic memory, becomes embroiled in an international plot of kidnapping and bribery that may have links to terrorists.
8) Lights out
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Told by his parents that his light must be out at eight o'clock, a young piglet who is afraid of the dark devises an ingenious solution to the problem.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Once a month--every week in the summer--Steve the electrician dons special gear and, with the help of youngsters who live in his building, dives into a dumpster seeking useful objects that they can transform into imaginative new ones.
11) Young MacDonald
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Young MacDonald invents all sorts of mixed-up animals for his farm, including a BOG! At dinnertime, however, he must find a way to put things right before his parents see what he's done.
12) Mechanica
Author
Series
Mechanica volume 1
Publisher
Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"A retelling of Cinderella about an indomitable inventor-mechanic who finds her prince but realizes she doesn't want a fairy tale happy ending after all"--
13) Skybreaker
Author
Series
Publisher
Eos
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Matt Cruse, a student at the Airship Academy, and Kate de Vries, a young heiress, team up with a gypsy and a daring captain, to find a long-lost airship, rumored to carry a treasure beyond imagination.
14) Jackpot
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Griffin Bing and his friends are trying to locate Mr. Fielder's missing thirty million dollar lottery ticket, and thwart the local bully, Darren Vader, who wants to find it for himself--and Mr. Bing's latest invention may help.
Author
Series
101 ways to bug-- series volume 2
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Steve "Sneeze" Wyatt attempts to thwart his parents' plan to have him skip eighth grade, but he has bigger problems when his friends disapprove of his new list and Mrs. "Fierce" Pierce threatens to keep him from the Invention Convention.
16) No other story
Author
Series
Whole nother story trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Distributed to the trade by Macmillan
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When Mr. Cheeseman and his three "smart, polite, and relatively odor-free" children journey to the not-so-distant past, they meet something utterly surprising--the alternate versions of themselves.
18) Norton and Alpha
Author
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Norton and his robot dog like to collect objects that they use to create new inventions, but they think there is no possible use for the flower they find on one of their walks.
19) Tesla's attic
Author
Series
Accelerati trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"With a plot combining science and the supernatural, four kids are caught up in a dangerous plan concocted by the eccentric inventor, Nikola Tesla"--
20) Sky jumpers
Author
Series
Sky jumpers volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Hope lives in a post World War III town called White Rock where everyone must participate in Inventions Day, though Hope's inventions always fail. Her unique skill set comes in hand when a group of bandits invades the town"--
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