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Frankie Sparks third-grade inventor volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Frankie Sparks, the self-proclaimed "best inventor in the third grade," does research and creates a tool to try to persuade her classmates that a rat would make the best class pet.
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English
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"From the New York Times-bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From and Everything Bad Is Good for You, a new look at the power and legacy of great ideas. In this illustrated volume, Steven Johnson explores the history of innovation over centuries, tracing facets of modern life (refrigeration, clocks, and eyeglass lenses, to name a few) from their creation by hobbyists, amateurs, and entrepreneurs to their unintended historical consequences....
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Frankie Sparks third-grade inventor volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Frankie does not believe in leprechauns, but her best friend, Maya, claims that there is one living in her backyard; so Frankie builds a leprechaun trap to prove her point--but soon begins to doubt the validity of her own experiment.
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Frankie Sparks third-grade inventor volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Frankie Sparks is excited about her town's team sled design contest but while she knows a lot about building a sled, she has much to learn about building a team. Includes information on the design process and a challenge.
7) Jackpot
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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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.
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Frankie Sparks third-grade inventor volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Frankie Sparks uses her inventing skills to help her friend overcome stage fright in this second chapter book in the STEM inspired Frankie Sparks, Third-Grade Inventor series. It's time for the annual school talent show, and Frankie is excited to audition with her magic act! She wants to be just like her idol, Adelaide Herrmann, Queen of Magic. But on the day of the audition, Frankie's best friend and Magician's Assistant, Maya, gets a big, scary...
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If all measures of human advancement in the last hundred centuries were plotted on a graph, they would show an almost perfectly flat line-until the eighteenth century, when the Industrial Revolution would cause the line to shoot straight up, beginning an almost uninterrupted march of progress.In The Most Powerful Idea in the World, William Rosen tells the story of the men responsible for the Industrial Revolution and the machine that drove it-the...
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Firebrand conservative columnist, commentator, Internet entrepreneur, and #1 New York Times bestselling author Michelle Malkin tells the fascinating, little-known stories of the inventors who have contributed to American exceptionalism and technological progress. In July 2012, President Obama infamously proclaimed: "If you've got a business-you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen. " Malkin wholeheartedly disagrees. Who Built That is...
12) This is war
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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The longstanding and galaxy-spanning war between cats and robots escalates when each learns of inventions designed to extend their lives, and the potential of the devices is revealed when two kittens come into the lives of twin siblings on Earth.
13) Unleashed
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Luthor, a former attack dog, is supposed to be on his best behavior now that he's in the care of Savannah, a girl who's easily a dog's best friend. But every time a certain truck passes by Savannah's house, Luthor goes into attack mode -- and chaos follows. Meanwhile, Griffin Bing is locked in the fight of his life with his archenemy, Darren Vader. Both are trying to win an invention contest -- and will stop at nothing to be victorious.
14) Edison's alley
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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"Nick and his friends race against their foes to retrieve more pieces of Tesla's free energy transmitter, only to see them fall into the hands of the Accelerati's shadowy leader"--publisher.
15) Now with fleas!
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Cats vs. robots volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Cats and robots are preparing to converge on Earth and battle it out for the Infinity Engine, while the Wengrod family desperately tries to save the powerful weapon.
16) Tightrope
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Former trapeze artist Amalie Vaughn moved to Burning Cove to reinvent herself, but things are not going well. After spending her entire inheritance on a mansion with the intention of turning it into a bed-and-breakfast, she learns too late that the villa is said to be cursed. When the first guest, Dr. Norman Pickwell, is murdered by his robot invention during a sold-out demonstration, rumors circulate that the curse is real.
17) Quirky
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Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Melissa Schilling, one of the world's leading experts on innovation, invites us into the lives of eight people--Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Elon Musk, Dean Kamen, Nikola Tesla, Marie Curie, Thomas Edison, and Steve Jobs--to identify the traits and experiences that drove them to make spectacular breakthroughs, over and over again. While all innovators possess incredible intellect, intellect alone, she shows, does not create a breakthrough...
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In this entertaining eBooklet, renowned deep thinkers Jimmy Russell and Jack Goldstein discuss the ten greatest inventions they believe humankind has ever seen, using their own unique perspectives on the world in which we live. The result is an entertaining read, and - being careful to distinguish between inventions and discoveries - many readers may be surprised at what appears on the list and what does not. Informative, fun and vaguely educational,...
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Nine remarkable men produced inventions that changed the world. The printing press, the telephone, powered flight and recording and many others have made the modern world what it is. But who were the men who had these ideas and made reality of them? As David Angus shows, they were very different – quiet, boisterous, confident, withdrawn – but all had a moment of vision allied to single-minded determination to battle through numerous prototypes...
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