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24) Scan
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
"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"--
25) Awesome Dawson
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
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
Language
English
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Description
"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"--
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English
Description
Conservative journalist Malkin provides an eclectic journey of American capitalism, from the colonial period to the Industrial Age to the present, spotlighting little-known "tinkerpreneurs" who achieved their dreams of doing well by doing good. Learn how Paul Revere became America's first tech titan, how famous patent holders Abraham Lincoln and Mark Twain championed the nation's unique system of intellectual property rights, and more.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
This is the story of how Les Paul created the world's first solid- body electric guitar, countless other inventions that changed modern music, and one truly epic career in rock and roll. How to make a microphone? A broomstick, a cinderblock, a telephone, a radio. How to make an electric guitar? A record player's arm, a speaker, some tape. How to make a legendary inventor? A few tools, a lot of curiosity, and an endless faith in what is possible. Featuring...
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English
Description
A New York Times Bestseller
In the spirit of Steve Jobs and Moneyball, Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary life of one of Silicon Valley's most exciting, unpredictable, and ambitious entrepreneurs—a real-life Tony Stark—and a fascinating exploration of the renewal of American invention and its new "makers."
Elon Musk spotlights the technology and vision
...33) Mouse in Space!
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Series
Geronimo Stilton volume 52
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When an evil professor begins threatening New Mouse City with terrible inventions, Geronimo Stilton is enlisted by local authorities to embark on a top-secret mission to outer space to thwart a nefarious plot.
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English
Description
Flint Lockwood is a young inventor who dreams of creating something that will improve everyone's life. Sam Sparks is a weathergirl covering the town's weather phenomenon, but chooses to hide her intelligence behind a perky exterior. Tim Lockwood is Flint's technophobic father. Brent is the town bully who has plagued Flint since childhood. Mayor Shelbourne exploits Flint's newest invention so he can put the town, and more importantly himself, on the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
Ahora en espanol, la verdadera historia del juguete favorito de todos los ninos en el verano, la Super Pistola de Agua, y como fue inventado por accidente. Mientras trataba de crear un sistema de enfriamiento para refrigeradores, Lonnie Johnson invento sin quererlo el mecanismo de este emblematico juguete. Cuando era nino le encantaban los cohetes, los robots, todo tipo de inventos y, sobre todo, la creatividad. Gracias a su pasion y persistencia...
37) Edison
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Language
English
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Description
"Enlightened by seven years of research among the five million pages of original documents preserved in Edison's huge laboratory at West Orange, New Jersey, and privileged access to family papers still held in trust, Morris is also able to bring his subject to life on the page--the adored yet autocratic and often neglectful husband of two wives and father of six children. If the great man who emerges from it is less a sentimental hero than an overwhelming...
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Frank Einstein volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
39) Airman
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
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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