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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
45 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Cat in the Hat profiles famous inventors throughout the ages, including Johannes Gutenberg, Eli Whitney, Louis Daguerre, Thomas Edison, Garrett Morgan, and Tim Berners-Lee.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
124, 29 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Harold Fuzzwonker works with his parents to protect the family's top-secret recipe for the world's greatest soda pop from the evil Snood candy factory, but his best fizzy friend Floyd makes keeping the secret hard when he escapes from Harold's backpack.
4) Marveltown
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Marveltown's adults are outstanding inventors, but when their best engineers create giant but stupid robots that threaten the town, it is the children's outrageous creations that save the day.
7) Inventors
Author
Publisher
Silver Burdett Co
Pub. Date
[1982], c1981
Physical Desc
93 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
George and Harold and their doubles, Yesterday George and Yesterday Harold, have been taking turns going to school, but when the doubles fall prey to their gym teacher, Mr. Meaner, and his method of mind control that turns students into attentive, obedient, perfect children, it is up to original George and Harold to strike back.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A little girl has a wonderful idea. With the help of her canine assistant, she is going to make the most magnificent thing! She knows just how it will look. She knows just how it will work. But making the most magnificent thing turns out to be harder than she thinks.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Inspired by a teacher who believes each of them is a genius, a class of special-needs students invents something that could convince the whole school they are justifiably proud to be "Junkyard Wonders."
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
318 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1852, when seventeen-year-old Katharine is sent to her family's estate to prove that her uncle is insane, she finds he is an inventor whose work creating ingenious clockwork figures supports hundreds of families, but strange occurences soon have her doubting her own sanity.
Author
Series
Publisher
Triangle Interactive, LLC
Pub. Date
2018
Language
Español
Description
Engineers have built some incredible things. But with every new feat, there is failure. Readers will learn about engineering feats like the Titanic, the Hindenburg, the Hoover Dam, and more in this engaging nonfiction title that has been translated into Spanish. This title features brilliant images, charts, and intriguing facts in conjunction with informational text and mathematic skills to keep readers active and engaged.
Author
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Sky gazers experience a total solar eclipse in this descriptive picture book about the wonders of this phenomenon.
What happens during a solar eclipse?
The sun vanishes. Light becomes dark. Day animals sleep and night animals wake. The moon takes over the sky. People stop what they're doing and together, they look up.
The whole world changes for a few beautiful minutes.