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Publisher
Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
In 1848, a fanatical inventor seeks to fly around the world and stop war from his flying airship, the 'Albatross', a cross between a zeppelin and a helicopter. Adapted from two Jules Verne novels: 'Master of the World' and 'The Conqueror'.
Author
Series
Frankie Sparks third-grade inventor volume 4
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"She reads a story about an unlucky leprechaun. Frankie Sparks thinks it's funny, but it's a fairy tale. After all, everyone knows leprechauns aren't real. Unlike Frankie, her best friend, Maya, is convinced that leprechauns exist. In fact, she tells Frankie that there's a leprechaun living in her backyard! So Frankie decides to build her biggest invention yet: a leprechaun trap! And since her trap will be foolproof, it makes sense that the only reason...
Author
Publisher
DK/Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Do you have the imagination of an inventor? Peek inside Leonardo da Vinci's workshop, climb aboard Hideo Shima's bullet train, and go behind the scenes with movie star-turned-inventor, Hedy Lamarr. Inventors tells the stories of more than 50 pioneering scientists and revolutionary thinkers who have shaped our world with their remarkable creations." --
Author
Publisher
Creston Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Sarah E. Goode was one of the first African-American women to get a US patent. Working in her furniture store, she recognized a need for a multi-use bed and through hard work, ingenuity, and determination, invented her unique cupboard bed. She built more than a piece of furniture. She built a life far away from slavery, a life where her sweet dreams could come true."-- cover page 4.
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
"Mientras trataba de crear un sistema de enfriamiento para refrigeradores, Lonnie Johnson invent̤ sin quererlo el mecanismo de este emblem̀tico juguete. Cuando era nįo le encantaban los cohetes, los robots, todo tipo de inventos y, sobre todo, la creatividad. Gracias a su pasi̤n y persistencia por resolver problemas, lleg̤ a ser ingeniero y a trabajar para la NASA. Pero dio el gran salto a la fama cuando invent̤ la S︢per Pistola de Agua. Su...
46) 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.
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"--
Author
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A gorgeous and inspiring picture book about a young girl, Nell, who invents a machine to fix the pollution that is choking the city. It's done! said Nell. My invention is finished! I must show it to the people in the Big City as soon as I can. Far from Nell's home in the countryside, the Big City is growing more polluted every day - and Nell has a brilliant mind and an ingenious invention. She sets off on the long journey, only to find that the problem...
51) The oyster thief
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Coralline is a mermaid who is engaged to the merman of her dreams. But when an oil spill wreaks havoc on her idyllic village life, her little brother falls gravely ill. Desperate to save him, she embarks on aquest to find a legendary elixir made of starlight. Izar, a human man, is on the cusp of an invention that will enable him to mine the depths of the ocean. His discovery will soon make him the richest man on earth--while threatening merpeople...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Mattie Knight loved to make things ranging from a foot warmer for her mother or toys for her older brothers. Or, when she was 12, a metal guard to prevent shuttles from shooting off looms and hurting workers. Later, Mattie invented a machine that could cut and glue the square-bottomed paper bags we still use today. Meet the woman known as "the Lady Edison."
Author
Series
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The girls at Miss Bunsen's are excited at the news that Nova Celeste, the famous astronaut, is offering space camp scholarships to three lucky students. All the winning team has to do is invent a flying machine--in just a week! The girls don't have much to work with, but during a sewing class, they stumble across an incredible idea. But will it fly?
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The first book by the reclusive inventor of the world's most iconic puzzle THE RUBIK'S CUBE. Ernő Rubik inspires us with what he's learned in a lifetime of creating, curiosity, and discovery. Ernő Rubik was a child when he first became obsessed with puzzles of all kinds. 'Puzzles,' he writes, 'bring out important qualities in each of us: concentration, curiosity, a sense of play, the eagerness to discover a solution.' To Rubik puzzles aren't just...
Author
Series
8th continent volume 1
Publisher
Razorbill, a division of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Hoping to transform a giant floating garbage patch into a habitable eighth continent where people can escape an oppressive bureaucracy, Evie and Rick must race against time when a plastic-obsessed villainess tries to claim the continent to expand her power.
Author
Series
House of robots volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Fifth grader Sammy Hayes-Rodriguez has to find a solution when his robot 'brother' has repeated malfunctions at school and a newer model robot steps in as competition. His mother's job is in jeopardy as a result"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Nomad Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"How does a car move from one place to another? How do cranes lift such heavy objects? From ancient times to now, engines have powered people's lives. Engines! With 25 Science Projects for Kids invites readers ages 7 to 10 to explore engines and deepen their understanding of the history of engines, what makes them hum, and all the special jobs they do for humans. Engines! also examines some of the ways mechanical innovation has backfired, such as...
Author
Language
English
Description
New York, 1888. Gas lamps still flicker in the city streets, but the miracle of electric light is in its infancy. The person who controls the means to turn night into day will make history and a vast fortune. A young untested lawyer named Paul Cravath, fresh out of Columbia Law School, takes a case that seems impossible to win. Paul's client, George Westinghouse, has been sued by Thomas Edison over a billion-dollar question: Who invented the light...
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