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The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker and Switchboard Soldiers illuminates the life of Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelace—Lord Byron’s daughter and the world’s first computer programmer.
The only legitimate child of Lord Byron, the most brilliant, revered, and scandalous of the Romantic poets, Ada was destined for fame long before her birth. But her...
The only legitimate child of Lord Byron, the most brilliant, revered, and scandalous of the Romantic poets, Ada was destined for fame long before her birth. But her...
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House of robots volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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"Fifth-grader Sammy Hayes-Rodriguez struggles to fit in when his inventor mother requires him to take her latest creation, a robotic 'brother,' to school with him to learn to become a student"--
4) Airman
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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In the late nineteenth century, when Conor Broekhart discovers a conspiracy to overthrow the king, he is branded a traitor, imprisoned, and forced to mine for diamonds under brutal conditions while he plans a daring escape from Little Saltee prison by way of a flying machine that he must design, build, and, hardest of all, trust to carry him to safety.
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House of robots volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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"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--and his mother's job is in jeopardy as a result"--
6) Scan
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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"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"--
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The Templeton twins volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Professor Templeton has been hired by the Thespian Academy of the Performing Arts and Sciences to invent something, anything, important (and profitable) but the thirteen-year-old twins, Abigail and John, are suspicious and determined to investigate.
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Magic Tree House volume 32
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Jack and Annie are whisked back in time by the magic tree house to meet Benjamin Franklin in Old Philadelphia"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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All his life, Dawson has been inventing things, repairing toys in unusual ways, and helping clean up his neighborhood by reusing discarded objects, but when his Vacu-Maniac malfunctions it is his friend Mooey whose brainpower saves the day.
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Frank Einstein volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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"Frank Einstein (kid-genius scientist and inventor) and his best friend, Watson, along with intelligent robots Klink and Klank once again find themselves in competition with T. Edison, their classmate and archrival--this time in the quest to unlock the power behind the science of energy"--
12) Eddie Fantastic
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Eddie Fanta is a fifteen-year-old boy entangled in tragic secrets which leave him questioning life, questioning justice, and questioning God. Louis Kosserinski is a savagely scarred and crippled old man who has remained in utter seclusion for the last forty years. Mysterious circumstances bring these two characters face to face where Eddie discovers the old man's unprecedented genius for electronics and microcircuitry--a genius which has spawned a...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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In the early twentieth century, five sisters and their widowed mother, a famed spiritualist, travel from New York to London, and as the Titanic conveys them and their acquaintances, journalist W.T. Stead, scientist Nikola Tesla, and industrialist John Jacob Astor, home, Tesla's inventions will either doom or save them all.
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The Templeton twins volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Abigail and John, the Templeton twins, and their dog Cassie, foil a pair of inept kidnappers intent on stealing one of their father's newest inventions.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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In his Grandpa Al's garage workshop, child genius Frank Einstein tries to invent a robot that can learn on its own, and after an accident brings wisecracking Klink and overly expressive Klank to life, they set about helping Frank perfect his Antimatter Motor until his archnemesis, T. Edison, steals the robots for his doomsday plan.
17) A Dastardly Plot
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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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.
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Frank Einstein volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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"Frank Einstein (kid-genius, scientist, and inventor) and his best friend Watson, along with Klink (a self-assembled artificial-intelligence entity), and Klank (a mostly self-assembled and artificial almost intelligence entity), once again find themselves in competition with T. Edison, their classmate and archrival--this time in the quest to unlock the power behind the science of the human body"-- Provided by publisher.
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Tom Swift young inventor volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Tom's been training his entry, SwiftBot, for the upcoming Robot Olympics, an event sponsored by the White House's Office of Science and Technology, but an antiscience terrorist group threatens to disrupt the event.
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"...follows eccentric toymaker Jeronicus Jangle...whose fanciful inventions burst with whimsy and wonder. But when a betrayal by a former protege...leaves Jeronicus withdrawn and down on his luck, it's up to his bright and adventurous granddaughter, Journey...--and a singularly magical invention--to save the day."--
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