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2) Jabari tries
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jabari is making a flying machine all by himself, but when it doesn't work the way he imagined, he learns about perserverance and problem-solving.
3) Albie Newton
Author
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When whiz inventor Albie Newton enters a new school, his plan for making friends turns into a disaster, but his incredible new invention may make everything right and his classmates' friendship.
Author
Series
Tom Swift Inventors' Academy volume 7
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Tom and his friends track down a mysterious blogger who pushes pranks too far.
Author
Series
Tom Swift Inventors' Academy volume 4
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Someone is sabotaging student projects and all signs point to Tom's friend Sam as the culprit, so Tom and his friends set out to clear her name.
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.
9) Izzy Gizmo
Author
Series
Izzy Gizmo volume 1
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Izzy Gizmo loves to invent but gets frustrated when her inventions fail to work properly, so when she finds a crow with a broken wing her grandfather urges her to persist until she finds a way to help.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Hap's grandmother has experimented on his family and confined them to the basement of a mansion paid for by his father's inventions, but his plan to sell her to aliens goes awry.
11) A dastardly plot
Author
Series
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In 1883 New York, while trying to introduce her mother's flying machine to the men-only Inventors' Guild, twelve-year-old Molly uncovers a plot to destroy the World's Fair.
14) Depth perception
Author
Series
Tom Swift Inventors' Academy volume 8
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
While working on a service project to clean up a local lake, Tom and his friends begin to question the behavior of famous inventor and project sponsor J.J. Jefferson, who seems unusually interested in the students' inventions.
Author
Series
Doctor Proctor's fart powder volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
New friends Nilly and Lisa help eccentric professor Doctor Proctor develop his latest invention, a powder that makes one fart, making them very popular at school, but someone is planning to steal the industrial-strength formula for evil purposes.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Against the wishes of his mortician mother, Hadorah, twelve-year-old Walter and classmate Cordelia take a hearse on a road trip to meet legendary inventor Flasterhorn, who once mentored Walter's long-dead father.--
Author
Series
The Inventors (Morgen) volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-olds George, the very unlucky third Lord of Devonshire, and his neighbor, scientist Ada Byron, join forces against a nefarious group of criminals who steal the map to a priceless family heirloom.--Provided by Publisher.
Author
Series
Frank Einstein volume 5
Publisher
Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Boy genius and inventor Frank Einstein and his robot pals Klink (intelligent) and Klank (sort-of intelligent) study the science of ecology and conservation as they try to stop classmate and archrival T. Edison and his loggers from destroying the Midville Forest Preserve.
Author
Series
Goldie Blox volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"When Goldie Blox accidentally blows off the roof of her school, she and her friends Val, Ruby, and Li have to work together and use their creative know-how to rebuild the school"--
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