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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toyseller and his goddaughter, his undercover life and his biggest secret are jeopardized.
5) 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"--
6) Giant trucks
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Learn all about the world's biggest, toughest trucks, from how they were invented to what jobs they are used to perform today."--
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English
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""What are my qualifications to write this book? None really. So why should you read it? Here's why: I'm a little fat. If a thin guy were to write about a love of food and eating I'd highly recommend that you do not read his book." Bacon. McDonalds. Cinnabon. Hot Pockets. Kale. Stand-up comedian and author Jim Gaffigan has made his career rhapsodizing over the most treasured dishes of the American diet ("choking on bacon is like getting murdered by...
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Accelerati trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"With a plot combining science and the supernatural, four kids are caught up in a dangerous plan concocted by the eccentric inventor, Nikola Tesla"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
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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This hilarious book is full of fun facts about robots, computers, x-rays, and other cool technology and inventions! Did you know that the first mobile phone weighed nearly two pounds? That's like carrying a pineapple around with you! How about that the only living things capable of powered flight are insects, birds, and bats? Or that certain robots can talk, control household devices, and memorize up to thirty different faces and tell them apart?
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William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of supposition arranged around scant facts. With his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal the man himself. Bryson documents the efforts of earlier scholars, and, emulating the style of his travelogues, records episodes in his own research. He celebrates Shakespeare...
12) Edison's alley
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Accelerati trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Nick and his friends race against their foes to retrieve more pieces of Tesla's free energy transmitter, only to see them fall into the hands of the Accelerati's shadowy leader"--
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Elements of Genius volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
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English
Description
Nikki Tesla is a genius, so mostly she finds school boring, and amuses herself by inventing things, like her mysterious missing father; trouble is most of her inventions have serious, lethal potential (like the death ray, which just blew a hole in her floor); so she and her ferret are hustled off to the special Genius Academy with classmates who are equally exceptional, although she still worries about fitting in--but when her death ray disappears...
14) Drones
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
Description
"Learn all about unmanned aircraft, or drones, including how they were invented and improved over time, what they are used for today, and why they have sometimes caused controversy"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
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English
Description
"A ten-year-old orphan discovers a box that can make the things he imagines become real and must keep the contraption from getting into the wrong hands with the help of a professor, his granddaughter, and a well-versed finger monkey"--
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Frank Einstein volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
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English
Description
Frank Einstein, child genius and inventor, his friends Watson and Janegoodall, and robots Klink and Klank invent the Space-Time Zipper that allows instant travel across the universe, but may also destroy it.
18) Teen agent
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
Description
When a new kid named Eric Stone comes to Seaside High, he recruits Ryker and Jay to help create an invention for the National Science Competition. The three teens make a great team, but soon, strange accidents befall Hazmat and Emmi, and they grow suspicious of the new kid. Ryker and Jay insist that Eric is legit and accompany him to his secret lab to finish their project. Suddenly, their high-tech invention turns on them, and Eric is behind the controls!...
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Frank Einstein volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Boy genius Frank Einstein finds himself in competition with his classmate and archrival T. Edison and his sign-language-speaking sidekick, Mr. Chimp, over Frank's newest invention: the EvoBlaster Belt.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
With his ability to travel through time using baseball cards and photographs, thirteen-year-old Joe and his mother go back to 1863 to ask Abner Doubleday whether he invented baseball, but instead find themselves in the middle of the Battle of Gettysburg.
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