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81) Clockwork lives
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Marinda Peake is a woman with a quiet, perfect life in a small village; she long ago gave up on her dreams and ambitions to take care of her ailing father, an alchemist and an inventor. When he dies, he gives Marinda a mysterious inheritance: a blank book that she must fill with other people's stories -- and ultimately her own.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"Teen Innovators celebrates the determination and ingenuity of ten young people who created their own original inventions. From water testing to windmills, these youth use unique methods to overcome real world problems"--
Author
Series
Adventures in extreme reading volume 1
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Carter Lewis's Uncle Dan has invented a suit that creates a virtual reality world so that the person experiences and interacts with a book as if he were actually there--but when Carter and his cousin Isabelle put on the suits they discover that a hacker is playing games with them.
Author
Series
Wrexford and Sloane historical mysteries volume 2
A Wrexford and Sloane mystery volume 2
Wrexford and Sloane historical mystery volume 2
A Wrexford and Sloane mystery volume 2
Wrexford and Sloane historical mystery volume 2
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Description
"When Lord Wrexford discovers the body of a gifted inventor in a dark London alley, he promptly alerts the watchman and lets the authorities handle the matter. But Wrexford soon finds himself drawn into the murder investigation when the inventor's widow begs for his assistance, claiming the crime was not a random robbery. It seems her husband's designs for a revolutionary steam-powered engine went missing the night of his death. The plans could be...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"This book traces the life of Alexander Graham Bell, from his early childhood and education through his sources of inspiration and challenges faced, early successes, and the invention for which he is best known: the telephone. A timeline at the end of the book summarizes key milestones and achievements of Bell's life"--Provided by the publisher.
86) A dastardly plot
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Description
In 1883 New York, while trying to introduce her mother's flying machine to the men-only Inventors' Guild, twelve-year-old Molly uncovers a plot to destroy the World's Fair.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Cleverly shows how Leonardo's ideas foreshadowed modern inventions. At once an artist, inventor, engineer, and scientist, Leonardo da Vinci wrote and drew detailed descriptions of what would later become hang gliders, automobiles, robots, and much more. Contains several examples of mirror writing.
88) Connections: 7-8
Series
Connections volume 7-8
Pub. Date
[2001?]
Description
A series presenting science as a detective story illustrating the connections between events of the past and inventions of the future. Part 7: Traces the connection between mercantile competition between the British and Dutch in the 17th century, the development of coal-tar pitch to protect ship hulls and its replacement by copper, the creation of waterproffed clothing, gaslight lamps and nylon. Part 8: When Napoleon marched across Europe, he needed...
Author
Series
House of robots volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"Robots on strike! Sammy's underappreciated mechanical helpers cause chaos in the house. It's up to Sammy and his disabled sister Maddie to keep the peace until his inventor mom reveals her secret project--and why it was worth the wait"--
Author
Description
Benjamin Franklin is perhaps the most remarkable figure in American history: the greatest statesman of his age, he played a pivotal role in the formation of the American republic. He was also a pioneering scientist, a best selling author, the country's first postmaster general, a printer, a bon vivant, a diplomat, a ladies' man, and a moralist-and the most prominent celebrity of the eighteenth century. Franklin was, however, a man of vast contradictions,...
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
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Chronicles the Wright brothers' quest to make a successful flying machine, tracing their lifelong interest in flight and describing their business ventures, the death of their mother, and other important parts of their lives.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
A wildly successful innovator to rival Steve Jobs or Elon Musk, Vivian Liao is prone to radical thinking, quick decision-making, and reckless action. On the eve of her greatest achievement, she tries to outrun people who are trying to steal her success. In the chilly darkness of a Boston server farm, Viv sets her ultimate plan into motion. A terrifying instant later, Vivian Liao is catapulted through space and time to a far future where she confronts...
100) Fiddlehead
Author
Series
Clockwork century volume 6
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
"Young ex-slave Gideon Bardsley is a brilliant inventor, but the job is less glamorous than one might think, especially since the assassination attempts started. Worse yet, they're trying to destroy his greatest achievement: a calculating engine called Fiddlehead, which provides undeniable proof of something awful enough to destroy the world. Both man and machine are at risk from forces conspiring to keep the Civil War going and the money flowing....