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24) Melia and Jo
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Melia is scientific and loves to create things in her backyard laboratory, but something is missing. Her inventions just aren't quite right. Enter Jo, her new friend with an artistic spirit. When you add the arts to sciences, something magical happens!
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Ben Franklin loved to swim and, at the age of eleven, he was determined to swim like a fish - fins and all! This fascinating and lively account of young Ben's earliest invention follows the budding scientist's journey as he tests and retests his swim fins. That first big splash led Ben to even more innovations and inventions.
Author
Series
Microsaurs volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Professor Penrod sends Danny and Lin a mysterious package filled with biting, scratching microsaurs hungry enough to chew through walls, along with a very large microsaur egg.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
"A ten-year-old orphan discovers a box that can make the things he imagines become real and must keep the contraption from getting into the wrong hands with the help of a professor, his granddaughter, and a well-versed finger monkey"--
29) Stealing air
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Three sixth-grade boys band together to build an experimental aircraft, enduring social and practical difficulties in the process.
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First edition.
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.
31) Scan
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Tate Archer outruns armed government officials as he tries to keep his now dead father's strange invention out of the wrong hands, alien hands"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Simon Spotlight hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
It seems like everything Billy Sure invents becomes an instant hit. His latest invention is the Cat-Dog Translator, a device that will finally let cat and dog owners in on what their pets are tryng to say. But, as Billy soon learns, when pets start talking, there's no telling what kinds of embarrassing secrets they could reveal! Is the world ready for Billy to unleash his latest invention?
33) Slob
Author
Language
English
Description
Picked on, overweight genius Owen tries to invent a television that can see the past to find out what happened the day his parents were killed.
34) Magisterium
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In the twenty-second century, Glennora Morgan's father has been working on a project that will allow him to penetrate the Rift border and retrieve Glennora's mother; but now that he has succeeded the Authority is suddenly trying to kill them both, and Glennora and her friend Kevin must flee into the Magisterium to escape them.
Author
Series
Cats vs. robots volume 1
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
#1 New York Times bestselling author Margaret Stohl and Lewis Peterson are back for book two in the hilarious middle grade series!
Book one of the Cats vs. Robots series was praised for its "mix of tech and kitties, STEM and heart" by the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books.
In book two, the intergalactic war between the Feline Empire and Robot Federation has escalated to the brink of war. Cats
...Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In 1852, when seventeen-year-old Katharine is sent to her family's estate to prove that her uncle is insane, she finds he is an inventor whose work creating ingenious clockwork figures supports hundreds of families, but strange occurences soon have her doubting her own sanity.
38) A spark unseen
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When Katharine Tulman foils an attempt to kidnap her Uncle Tully, she finds herself caught up in international intrigue. Aware that there are people who want to turn her uncle's mechanical fish into an explosive device, and unsure of who to trust, she decides to fake her uncle's death and flee to Paris in search of Lane Moreau, her uncle's assistant.
Author
Series
Elements of genius volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Nikki Tesla is a genius, so mostly she finds school boring, and amuses herself by inventing things, like her mysterious missing father; trouble is most of her inventions have serious, lethal potential (like the death ray, which just blew a hole in her floor); so she and her ferret are hustled off to the special Genius Academy with classmates who are equally exceptional, although she still worries about fitting in--but when her death ray disappears...
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