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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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
When Tinker Bell agrees to water Lily's flowers for the day, she finds gardening to be very boring, so she invents an invention to aid Lily in her tasks, but Lily has no need for Tink's contraption because she enjoys watering, digging, and planting by hand.
26) Melia and Jo
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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!
27) 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
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Neglected by her father who spends all of his time building a ghost machine to bring her mother back from the dead, twelve-year-old Emmaline decides that the only way to bring her father back will be to make the machine work, or destroy it forever.
Author
Publisher
Capstone Editions
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Riley Green invents a lie detector pen hoping to improve her status at a Washington, D.C. school, but the idea is stolen, and her teacher entrusts her with a lost notebook of Nikola Tesla before disappearing. Includes facts about Tesla.
Author
Series
Invention Hunters volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When the Invention Hunters, a group of globe-trotting invention collectors, visit a school in their flying museum, a student helps them by explaining how common concepts related to light, like refraction, magnification, and reflection, and objects, like cameras and televisions, work."--
Author
Series
How to catch-- volume 15
Publisher
Sourcebooks Wonderland
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Children attempt to catch Santa's reindeer Comet as Santa delivers presents to their neighborhood on Christmas Eve. Includes information about reindeer"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Rube Goldberg (Brandon T. Snider) volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When on the first day of middle school Principal Kim announces a Contraption Convention, young inventor Rube Goldberg must conquer his anxieties and a ghostly mystery to come up with something brilliant for the judges and his friends.
Author
Series
The DATA set volume 11
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When Dr. Bunsen's latest robotic invention snatches Gabe, hops into a portal, and takes him all the way to Antarctica, the DATA Set follow in pursuit.
35) If the hat fits
Author
Series
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
It's a new school year with the same old problems: the school is going to run out of money! But a local engineering competition might just keep them funded for another year. Can Millie and her friends Pearl and Halinka invent a way out of the mess? With some guidance from their eccentric headmistress Miss Bunsen, anything seems possible.
Author
Series
Goldie Blox volume 4
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"When Goldie Blox lets down her BFF Ruby Rails, she is determined to make it up by throwing her friend the best birthday bash ever"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, An Imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
While helping on his grandparents' farm, Zach, his best friend Matthew, and neighbor Josie outsmart a tormenting turkey and, in the process, solve a mystery of missing jewelry.
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