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61) Get inventing!
Author
Publisher
Capstone Raintree
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"This title teaches readers how to stop dreaming about becoming an inventor--and take steps to make their dreams come true! Helpful tips for finding inspiration, keeping an ideas journal and always thinking about how to improve things will help your reader inventing in no time! An activity at the end of the book encourages readers to invent their own board game and test it out."--
62) The oyster thief
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Coralline is a mermaid who is engaged to the merman of her dreams. But when an oil spill wreaks havoc on her idyllic village life, her little brother falls gravely ill. Desperate to save him, she embarks on aquest to find a legendary elixir made of starlight. Izar, a human man, is on the cusp of an invention that will enable him to mine the depths of the ocean. His discovery will soon make him the richest man on earth--while threatening merpeople...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Nikola Tesla was a man forever misunderstood. From his boyhood in what is present-day Croatia, where his father, a Serbian Orthodox priest, dismissed his talents, to his tumultuous years in New York City, where his heated rivalry with Thomas Edison yielded triumphs and failures, Tesla was both demonized and lionized. Tesla captures the whirlwind years of the dawn of the electrical age, when his flair for showmanship kept him in the public eye. For...
65) Ben Franklin
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Inventor, writer, businessman, scientist, diplomat, and the face gracing the hundred-dollar bill - this stately figure is the Benjamin Franklin history has taught us to remember. In this revealing presentation, the man behind the myth is brought to light.
Author
Series
Snazzy cat capers volume 3
Publisher
Square Fish, Imprint
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Ophelia von Hairball V of Burglaria, international kitty of mystery, is always fishing for a new mission im-paws-ible. When a thief steals a dangerous artifact from its vault, the Furry Feline Burglary Institute (FFBI) puts Ophelia in charge of stealing it back. But when the cat's away, the dogs will play. The Central Canine Intelligence Agency (CCIA) is hot on her tail--and they want the artifact for themselves! Ophelia will need some dashing disguises,...
Author
Series
Vincent Shadow volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Vincent Shadow is starting his internship at the most famous toy company in the world.
Author
Series
Frank Einstein volume 6
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Frank Einstein (kid-genius, scientist, and inventor) and his best friend, Watson, along with Klink (a self-assembled artificial-intelligence entity) and Klank (a mostly self-assembled and artificial almost intelligence entity), once again find themselves in competition with T. Edison, their classmate and archrival, this time studying the science and mysteries of the universe!"--
Author
Series
Bizarre Baron Inventions volume 4
Publisher
Amberjack Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
W.B. is back and more disappointed than ever when he discovers a new series of popular books that depict the Barons as bumbling fools, worse than even W.B.s worst day. His parents M and P, along with Rose Blackwood, laugh at the books until their plummeting reputation starts scaring off the buyers of their inventions, leaving the family without an income. As family members start disappearing one by one, P realizes that the author of the books is not...
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"This wonderfully quirky book will change the way you look at your desk forever with stories of accidental genius, bitter rivalries, and an appreciation for everyday objects, like the humble but perfectly designed paper clip and the utilitarian, irreplaceable pencil. How many of humanity's brightest ideas started out on a scrap of paper, a Post-It, or in the margins of a notebook? In a delightfully witty and fresh voice, James Ward--cofounder of...
74) Venturess
Author
Series
Mechanica volume 2
Publisher
Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
An indomitable inventor and her loyal (and royal) friends cross the ocean to the lush world of Faerie, where they join a rising rebellion.
76) Thomas Edison
Author
Publisher
Abdo & Daughters Pub
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Sketches the life of the "Wizard of Menlo Park," the man who patented more than one thousand inventions, the most important of which was the electric light bulb.
Author
Series
Publisher
ECW
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Retired and living a perfect life with Francesca, Owen Hardy gets pulled into one last mission, with his grandson, for the Watchmaker that takes them to the frozen lands of Ultima Thule, while Marinda undertakes her own mission compiling the story of the Watchmaker and stopping a new group of anarchists.
78) Robot revolution
Author
Series
House of robots volume 3
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Robots on strike! Sammy's underappreciated mechanical helpers are causing chaos in book 3 of the bestselling House of Robots series.After a few early glitches in their relationship, Sammy and his "bro-bot" E are now fast friends. In fact, E is such a valued member of the family that the other electronic occupants of the House of Robots are feeling sorely unappreciated. And when Sammy's inventor mom becomes distracted by a top-secret project, the robots...
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The popular image of Alexander Graham Bell is that of an elderly American patriarch, memorable only for his paunch, his Santa Claus beard, and the invention of the telephone. In this magisterial reassessment based on thorough new research, acclaimed biographer Charlotte Gray reveals Bell's wide-ranging passion for invention and delves into the private life that supported his genius. The child of a speech therapist and a deaf mother, and possessed...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography, with photographs and quotes from Bell himself, which follows this well known inventor from his childhood in Scotland through his life-long efforts to come up with ideas that would improve people's lives.
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