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2) Skybreaker
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Series
My weirdest school volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A.J. and the gang from Ella Mentery School start a company to sell their brand new invention-a heated, scented, talking toilet seat!"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Baron von Bubbles (Bub) is a pug who wants nothing more than to help his human Bella in her craft projects for school, though he is a little apprehensive about the rocket she is making for the Inventor Challenge--so when he ruins the rocket while trying to get at Nutz the squirrel he needs to find a way to make it up to Bella.
5) Lights out
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
2005
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.
6) Stealing air
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Three sixth-grade boys band together to build an experimental aircraft, enduring social and practical difficulties in the process.
7) Shoe wars
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Ruby and Bear won't let the dreaded Wendy Wedge get her hands on the flying shoes their dad has invented.
9) This is war
Author
Series
Cats vs. robots volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.--
Author
Series
My weird school volume 18
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As the new computer lab teacher tries to bring Ella Mentry School into the twenty-first century with her peculiar inventions, second-grader A.J. struggles to survive without sugary snacks when Principal Klutz bans junk food.
Author
Series
Questioneers (Chapter books) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
12) Sky song
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Flint entered Winterfang Palace hoping to free his mother, but instead helps Eska escape and together they journey to the Never Cliffs intending to stop the evil Ice Queen's rule.
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."
14) Chilly da Vinci
Author
Publisher
NorthSouth
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When one of Chilly da Vinci's inventions separates a chunk of ice from his home iceberg, he must invent something quickly to get himself and the other penguins back home.
Author
Series
Invention Hunters volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The Invention Hunters visit a child's home in their flying museum, where they learn how electricity works.
16) Superhero Harry
Author
Publisher
Capstone Young Readers, an imprint of Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Harry wants to be a superhero and invents things to help make that happen but, in the meantime, he learns to be a real hero at school and home.
Author
Series
Zapato Power volume 2
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a very important inventor needs rescuing, Freddie Ramos activates his special sneakers and becomes a superhero.
Author
Series
Izzy Gizmo volume 2
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Izzy Gizmo is invited to an inventing competition, where a greedy competitor forces her to improvise.
Author
Series
Invention Hunters volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"When the Invention Hunters, a group of globe-trotting invention collectors, visit a construction site in their flying museum, a boy helps them by explaining how simple machines like levers, pulleys, and cranks work"--
Author
Series
Invention Hunters volume 4
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When the Invention Hunters visit a music store, a child helps them understand common concepts related to sound, including vibration, echoes, and sonic booms, and how objects such as drums and microphones work.
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