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Series
House of robots volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Fifth grader Sammy Hayes-Rodriguez has to find a solution when his robot 'brother' has repeated malfunctions at school and a newer model robot steps in as competition--and his mother's job is in jeopardy as a result"--
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twins Ella and Herbie have moved into a new home that doesn't look very pretty and they can see nothing good about it. Mom and dad have asked for the help of a handyman named Mr. Mital who attends their church and wants the twins to help him. Seeing their disappointment with the house, Mr. Mital tells them a quote from Sir Isaac Newton who once said "If I have seen farther than others, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Meaning that...
3) Flying feet
Author
Series
Zigzag kids volume 3
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Charlie often thinks of inventions that seldom work, but his latest idea just might be able to help Jake the Sweeper get rid of a big pile of trash and save "Come as a Character" day, too.
Author
Series
Templeton twins volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Professor Templeton has been hired by the Thespian Academy of the Performing Arts and Sciences to invent something, anything, important (and profitable) but the thirteen-year-old twins, Abigail and John, are suspicious and determined to investigate.
Author
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books
Pub. Date
2013.
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
Series
Templeton twins volume 1
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Abigail and John, the Templeton twins, and their dog Cassie, foil a pair of inept kidnappers intent on stealing one of their father's newest inventions.
Author
Series
Tom Swift Inventors' Academy volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Tom Swift and his friends at the Swift Academy work together to retrieve a drone that was taken by the custodian, Mr. Conway, who they believe is a notorious hacker.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The fifth graders of Liberty Falls Elementary have a reputation for trouble, but they manage to convince their principal to let them go on a field trip to the mansion of Edward Minks (local inventor, founder of the town, and great-great-great grandfather of fifth-grader Eddie), and search for the secret inventions that are rumored to be hidden there--but once at the estate they find that they are not the only people searching, and somehow this class...
Author
Series
Doctor Proctor's fart powder volume 3
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
New adventures await Doctor Proctor, Lisa, and Nilly as they try to protect Oslo, Norway, from invading aliens, enormous snakes in the sewers, seven-legged Peruvian sucking spiders, and sinister waffle irons.
Author
Publisher
Fulcrum Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
With the school career fair coming up young Wanda needs to decide what she wants to be, but as she considers the suggestions of her parents and teachers, she realizes that what she really wants is to invent better ways to do things.
Author
Series
Tom Swift Inventors' Academy volume 7
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Tom and his friends track down a mysterious blogger who pushes pranks too far.
14) A dastardly plot
Author
Series
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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
Series
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Molly, Emmett, and Molly's mother compete in a high-profile race to become the first people to reach the South Pole, where Emmett's father, explorer and ship captain Wendell Lee, disappeared years ago.
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Ben, Zara, Sam, and Marcia begin their summer vacation by helping Professor Ampersand and a new friend build the Silver Turtle, a futuristic airplane, but on the day the first test flight is planned, a strange woman steals the airplane with the children inside.
17) Depth perception
Author
Series
Tom Swift Inventors' Academy volume 8
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
While working on a service project to clean up a local lake, Tom and his friends begin to question the behavior of famous inventor and project sponsor J.J. Jefferson, who seems unusually interested in the students' inventions.
Author
Series
Tom Swift Inventors' Academy volume 4
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Someone is sabotaging student projects and all signs point to Tom's friend Sam as the culprit, so Tom and his friends set out to clear her name.
19) The sonic breach
Author
Series
Tom Swift Inventors' Academy volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When someone steals an "app" that Amy wrote and profits from it, Tom and his friends use a robot to help catch the thief.
20) The fix-it man
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Meet Joshua James, the fix-it man. If he can't fix it, no one can! When a stinky problem arises, Joshua James takes matters into his own hands with a little help from his younger sister, Sophie. -- Amazon.com
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