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Questioneers (Chapter books) volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Rosie Revere is no stranger to flops and fails, kerfuffles and catastrophes. After all, engineering is all about perseverance! But this time, Rosie has a really important project to tackle-one that feels much bigger than herself. Rosie's beloved Aunt Rose and her friends, the Raucous Riveters-a group of fun-loving gals who built airplanes during World War II-need help inventing something new. And Rosie is just the engineer for the job! After one...
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English
Description
A twelve-year-old boy, worried that his parents may divorce, discovers that an island in the middle of the lake where he's spending the summer is the testing ground of the mysterious Dr. Libris, who may have invented a way to make the characters in books come alive.
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My weird school volume 18
Language
English
Description
As the new computer lab teacher tries to bring Ella Mentry School into the twenty-first century with her peculiar inventions, second-grader A.J. struggles to survive without sugary snacks when Principal Klutz bans junk food.
Author
Series
Questioneers volume 2
Language
English
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A young aspiring engineer comes to realize that failure is necessary for success.
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Series
My weirdest school volume 8
Language
English
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"A.J. and the gang from Ella Mentery School start a company to sell their brand new invention-a heated, scented, talking toilet seat!"--
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Series
Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 10
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Description
Jack and Annie travel 500 years back in time to Florence, Italy, and spend a day helping Leonardo da Vinci in the hope of learning another secret of happiness.
Jack and Annie are on a mission to save Merlin from his sorrows! The brother-and-sister team travel back in the magic tree house to the period known as the Renaissance. This time, Jack and Annie will need more than a research book and a magic wand. They'll need help from one of the greatest...
7) Jabari tries
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Series
Language
English
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Jabari is making a flying machine all by himself, but when it doesn't work the way he imagined, he learns about perserverance and problem-solving.
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Series
Captain Underpants volume 12
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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.
9) Jackpot
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Griffin Bing and his friends are trying to locate Mr. Fielder's missing thirty million dollar lottery ticket, and thwart the local bully, Darren Vader, who wants to find it for himself--and Mr. Bing's latest invention may help.
10) Junkyard wonders
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Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2010.
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."
11) Pug blasts off
Author
Series
Diary of a pug volume 1
Publisher
Branches/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
Baron von Bubbles (Bub) is a pug who wants nothing more than to help his human Bella in her craft projects for school, though he is a little apprehensive about the rocket she is making for the Inventor Challenge--so when he ruins the rocket while trying to get at Nutz the squirrel he needs to find a way to make it up to Bella.
12) Norton and Alpha
Author
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Norton and his robot dog like to collect objects that they find on their walks and create new inventions, but one day they find something unlike anything they have ever seen. What is it? What can it do?
13) No other story
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English
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When Mr. Cheeseman and his three "smart, polite, and relatively odor-free" children journey to the not-so-distant past, they meet something utterly surprising--the alternate versions of themselves.
14) Marveltown
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2008.
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.
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Series
Anna and Elsa volume 4
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When Kristoff and the ice harvesters challenge Oaken and his new invention to a friendly contest, Oaken, Elsa, and Anna becomes embroil in a mystery involving a missing ice harvesting machine.
16) Melia and Jo
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Melia is scientific and loves to create things in her backyard laboratory, but something is missing. Her inventions just aren't quite right. Enter Jo, her new friend with an artistic spirit. When you add the arts to sciences, something magical happens!
Author
Series
Fizzopolis volume 1
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Harold, the adopted son of a food inventor, discovers that his father's latest invention, soda pop that produces the world's longest burps, also generates furry creatures known as Fizzies.
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Daisy Wheel loves rainbows. When she misses seeing a rainbow over Doozer Creek, the Pod Squad decides to make a rainbow just for her! There's nothing to it when you do, do, do it! Encourage your little ones to imagine, invent, design, and create with the Doozers, brought to you by the creators of Fraggle Rock! --from Amazon.
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Series
Mr. and Mrs. Green volume 4
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Mr. and Mrs. Green, a loving alligator couple, practice magic tricks, bake cookies, and dream up new inventions.
20) Unleashed
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
Luthor the Doberman, a former attack dog, has a good home with Savannah Drysdale, but every time a certain truck passes he goes into a frenzy, while Griffin Bing is caught up in trying to beat his rival, Darren Vader, at an invention contest.
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