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Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
While twins Ella and Herbie help the handyman Mr. Midal work on their new home, he tells them about such inventors as Granville Woods, Dr. Henry T. Sampson, and James West, giving them a new view of their heritage as African-Americans.
Author
Series
Billy Sure kid entrepreneur volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inventor Billy Sure has been trying to perfect an invisibility spray for a long time when another young inventor shows up with his own rival technique for becoming invisible.
Author
Series
Frankie Sparks third-grade inventor volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
4) Venturess
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
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.
5) Melonhead
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the Washington, D.C. neighborhood of Capitol Hill, Lucy Rose's friend Adam "Melonhead" Melon, a budding inventor with a knack for getting into trouble, enters a science contest that challenges students to recycle an older invention into a new invention.
Author
Series
Frankie Sparks third-grade inventor volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
Examines the remarkable achievements of more than fifty history-shaping inventors, from Leonardo da Vinci and Hideo Shima to Ismail al-Jazari and Sarah E. Goode, to explain how their innovations made important scientific and technological breakthroughs possible.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Frank Einstein (kid-genius scientist and inventor) and his best friend, Watson, along with intelligent robots Klink and Klank once again find themselves in competition with T. Edison, their classmate and archrival--this time in the quest to unlock the power behind the science of energy"--publisher.
Author
Series
Tom Swift inventors' academy volume 6
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition, First Aladdin paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
Tom Swift Inventors' Academy is hosting an Invention Olympics, but Tom suspects that the crew filming a new reality show about the academy may be planning something nefarious.
Author
Language
English
Description
"When Lord Wrexford discovers the body of a gifted inventor in a dark London alley, he promptly alerts the watchman and lets the authorities handle the matter. But Wrexford soon finds himself drawn into the murder investigation when the inventor's widow begs for his assistance, claiming the crime was not a random robbery. It seems her husband's designs for a revolutionary steam-powered engine went missing the night of his death. The plans could be...
Author
Publisher
Eos
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
A collection of four fantasy tales in which a boy joins a strange navy in pursuit of video pirates, a neglected princess seeks adventure, an orphaned inventor seeks the perfect parents, and a genius girl faces a sea serpent.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Billy Sure, twelve-year-old genius inventor and CEO of Sure Things, Inc., hosts a contest for fellow kid innovators to share their own inventions, but he has a difficult time choosing a winner while helping other kids achieve their dreams.
14) Airman
Author
Language
English
Description
Conor Broekhart was born to fly. It is the 1890s, and Conor and his family live on the sovereign Saltee Islands, off the Irish coast. Conor spends his days studying the science of flight with his tutor and exploring the castle with the king's daughter, Princess Isabella. But the boy's idyllic life changes forever the day he discovers a deadly conspiracy against the king.
Author
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Ahora en español, la verdadera historia del juguete favorito de todos los niños en el verano, la Súper Pistola de Agua, y cómo fue inventado por accidente.
Mientras trataba de crear un sistema de enfriamiento para refrigeradores, Lonnie Johnson inventó sin quererlo el mecanismo de este emblemático juguete. Cuando era niño le encantaban los cohetes, los robots, todo tipo de inventos y, sobre todo, la creatividad. Gracias a su pasión y persistencia...
16) Control freaks
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
What if Louis Sachar's Wayside School were a little less wacky - but just as funny - and centered on a young Black boy who IS going to be the great inventor of all time, and set in the top STEM middle school in the country, oh and it was written by someone who worked for years in independent schools, and it also tackles what it's like to live in a blended family and to stand up to a parent who's not being so great and to truly work together with your...
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 32
Publisher
Random House
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Jack and Annie are whisked back in time by the magic tree house to meet Benjamin Franklin in Old Philadelphia"--
20) Field tripped
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
The fifth graders of Liberty Falls Elementary have a reputation for trouble, but they still have a field trip to the mansion of Edward Minks (local inventor, founder of the town, and great-great-great grandfather of fifth-grader Eddie). While there, they search for secret inventions that are rumored to be hidden in the mansion--but they find that they are not the only ones searching, and somehow this class of trouble-makers must work together to thwart...
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