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Description
Eccentric inventor Caractacus Potts creates an extraordinary car called Chitty chitty bang bang. It not only drives--but also flies and floats--as it leads him, his two children and his beautiful lady friend, Truly Scrumptious into a magical world of pirates, castles and adventure. There, the group encounter a host of unforgettable characters, including Baron Bomburst of Vulgaria, his persnickety wife, a lovable village toymaker and an evil child...
Pub. Date
[2010]
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...
Series
Cloudy witha a chance of meatballs volume 2
Description
Inventor Flint Lockwood thought he saved the world when he destroyed his machine that turned water into food causing cheeseburger rain and spaghetti tornadoes. But Flint soon learns that his invention survived and is now creating food-animals. Flint and his friends embark on a dangerously delicious mission to battle hungry tacodiles, shrimpanzees, hippotatomuses, cheespiders and other foodimals to save the world again!
Author
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Join a brilliant young inventor named Lewis as he sets off on a time-traveling journey to find the family he never knew. In the world of 2037, hip-hoppin' frogs and dogs that wear glasses are as common as talking dinosaurs. In an amazing twist, Lewis discovers that the fate of the future rests in his hands, but he can't save it alone. He meets the wacky Robinson family, who help him learn to keep moving forward and never stop believing in himself....
Pub. Date
[1990]
Description
Once upon a time in a castle high on a hill lived an inventor whose greatest creation was named Edward. Although Edward had an irresistible charm, he wasn't quite perfect. The inventor's sudden death left him unfinished, with sharp shears of metal for hands. Edward lived alone in the darkness until one day a kind Avon lady took him home to live with her family. So began Edward's fantastical adventures in a pastel paradise known as Suburbia.
8) Robots
Pub. Date
2016
Description
A young inventor embarks on a journey to attempt a position in a company run by his idol, master inventor Bigweld, along the way he encounters new and old robot friends who help him battle to keep his position in the company.
10) Pretty Bird
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
Based on a true story, three ambitious entrepreneurs set out to build a rocket belt to revolutionize personal travel.
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Greg Banks and his friends Doug and Shari decide to sneak into the old Coffman house ... Greg stumbles onto a hidden cabinet with a rather large and odd camera inside ... soon begins to realize this camera takes pictures of the future and causes bad things to happen ...
In the light of the full moon, I saw the cat sprawled on its back ... I recognized the cat ... named Rip. And I knew without going down there that I had killed it again ...
13) The inventor
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"The insatiably curious and headstrong Leonardo da Vinci leaves Italy to join the French court, where he can experiment freely, inventing flying contraptions, incredible machines, and study the human body. There, joined in his adventure by the audacious princess Marguerite, Leonardo will uncover the answer to the ultimate question--What is the meaning of it all?"--
Series
Pub. Date
1997.
Description
Honey, we shrunk ourselves: A tiny glitch in Wayne's infamous shrink machine causes Wayne, his brother, and their wives to shrink. Soon they must brave household insects the size of dinosaurs, a treacherous loop-the-loop track in a toy race car, dizzying "balloon" rides inside soap bubbles, and more.
Honey, I blew up the kid: Inventor Wayne Szalinski accidentally enlarges his two-year-old son, who grows to gargantuan proportions and stalks the streets...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Ben Franklin loved to swim and, at the age of eleven, he was determined to swim like a fish; fins and all! This fascinating and lively account of young Ben's earliest invention follows the budding scientist's journey as he tests and retests his swim fins. That first big splash led him to even more innovations and inventions.
19) Son of Flubber
Pub. Date
1963.
Description
In this sequel to 'The Absent-Minded Professor, ' the scientist has now invented Flubbergas, and anyone who inhales it floats away.
20) The jerk
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
A rags-to-riches-to-rags story. Navin Johnson, adopted son of a poor black sharecropper family, produces some crazy inventions that lead him from rags to riches and right back to rags.