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House of robots volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
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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"--
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"In this historical thriller about the nature of genius, the cost of ambition, and the battle to electrify America, a young lawyer fresh out of Columbia Law School takes a case that seems impossible to win. His client, George Westinghouse, has been sued by Thomas Edison over who invented the light bulb"--
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World of adventure volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
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Andy Hawkes decides to use one of his grandfather's inventions to uncover the cause of his parent's deaths and discover who is threatening Grandfater Hawke's life.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.6 - AR Pts: 38
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Benjamin Franklin is the Founding Father who winks at us. An ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings, he seems made of flesh rather than of marble. In bestselling author Walter Isaacson's vivid and witty full-scale biography, we discover why Franklin seems to turn to us from history's stage with eyes that twinkle from behind his new-fangled spectacles. By bringing Franklin to...
7) Melonhead
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Series
Melonhead books volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
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10 year old Adam Melon is always inventing things. All his life, which is 10 years, great ideas have been popping in and out of my melon head. Sometimes they work. This year theyd́ better, because his class is entering an inventing fair. His friend Sam and he are dreaming up plans. And Capitol Hill has a ton of places to find invention parts.
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As a little girl raised amid the hardships of Michigan's Copper Country, Fenna Vos learned to focus on her own survival. That ability sustains her even now as the Second World War rages in faraway countries. Though she performs onstage as the assistant to an unruly escape artist, behind the curtain she's the mastermind of their act. Ultimately, controlling her surroundings and eluding traps of every kind helps her keep a lingering trauma at bay. Yet...
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Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In the summer of 1851, with encouragement and ideas provided by his family, an inventor builds a working submarine and takes his family for a ride. Includes notes about Lodner Phillips, the real inventor on whom the story is based.
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Baby Brains volume 3
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Baby Brains invents RoboMom to do all the household chores and give his tired parents a rest.
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Pub. Date
2017.
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Women have made more significant and important contributions to science than most people realize. Profiled in this book are six admirable women scientists and inventors: Lise Meitner, Pearl Kendrick, Virginia Apgar, Jane Goodall, Shirley Ann Jackson, and Rosalind W. Picard.
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Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Eleven-year-old Julian Calendar thought changing schools would mean leaving his "nerdy" persona behind, but instead he forms an alliance with fellow inventors Greta and Ben and works with them to prevent an adult from using one of their gadgets for nefarious purposes.
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Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
From his humble boyhood as a farmer's son, selling newspapers on trains, reading through public libraries shelf by shelf, and dreaming of new inventions, Thomas Edison went on to create the light bulb, the phonograph, and the motion picture camera.
20) The bronzed hawk
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Journalist Kelly McKenna is not above a bit of blackmail to persuade inventor-genius to include her on his experimental-balloon ride to New Mexico.