Keating, Jess
Summary: "When Mary Shelley is kidnapped by a mad scientist, Nikki Tesla and the other members of the Genius Academy team are forced to agree to steal a priceless, lethal high-tech ring in order to free her; but Nikki also plans to use the heist to get closer to her long-lost father who claims he is not the criminal mastermind she believes him to be." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KEAWalstead, Alice
Summary: "The class pets escaped from their cages and are running loose in your school! Lizards, hamsters, rabbits, and birds are on the loose ... and a bearded dragon is leading the hilarious escape. Join the fun and find out if you have what it takes to catch these riotous pets on their wild field trip! Featuring an approachable school theme that kids will relate to plus cute animal characters and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Wonderland 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WALYoung, Jessica (Jessica E.)
Summary: When Finley decides that fashion is just wearable art, she sets out to create a new fad with her friend Henry: a forklet, a bracelet you can both wear and eat with and only one dollar each for her classmates--unfortunately her parents do not appreciate the disappearing silverware, and Finley has to rethink her invention.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED YOUBlakemore, Megan Frazer
Summary: Frankie does not believe in leprechauns, but her best friend, Maya, claims that there is one living in her backyard; so Frankie builds a leprechaun trap to prove her point--but soon begins to doubt the validity of her own experiment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BLAAllegra, Mike
Summary: Kimmie is overwhelmed with deadlines as she fulfills tooth fairy commissions, scrambles to invent a machine with her best friend Myron to enter in a contest and to beat her rival, and has to help an incorrigible alien repair his UFO.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2022
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Summary: On the first day of middle school, Principal Kim announces that the school is going to throw a Contraption Convention--the perfect opportunity for young inventor Rube Goldberg to show off his inventions and get out of his summer-long funk. But after a fight with his friends Pearl and Boob about where his priorities really lie, Rube's Con Con entry gets off to a rocky start, and then strange...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD SNIPilkey, Dav
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2015
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Summary: Bernie Bridges and his Rotten School friends win a trip to a local prep school to compete in the National School Make-A-Great-Invention Contest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2007
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED STIAmin, Anita Nahta
Summary: Reeya Rai and her friend Finlay discover a priceless ivory peacock in a cave near the Roman site her parents are studying, and Reeya must come up with a way to retrieve the nearly inaccessible artefact before the greedy Dr. Acker finds it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE AMIAllegra, Mike
Summary: Kimmie and Myron invent a machine that can collect golf balls from the bottom of their local course's pond scum, but they discover a friendly creature lurking beneath the water.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ALLBeaty, Andrea
Summary: When Rosie is unable to invent a contraption to help one of Aunt Rose's Raucous Riveters friends, she calls on classmates Iggy Peck and Ada Twist to help.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2021
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Summary: Inspired by her desire for a late night snack, Camila invents a pair of light-up slippers, which make her a star to her classmates--but get her into trouble with her parents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE SALBaker, Keith
Summary: Mr. and Mrs. Green, a loving alligator couple, practice magic tricks, bake cookies, and dream up new inventions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2006
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE BAKKelley, Marty
Summary: In his science journal, Ian records that his experiments with a jet pack for his dog, Wilbur, lead to chaos and a lot of unhappy people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KELDeStefano, Lauren.
Summary: Neglected by her father who spends all of his time building the ghost machine to bring her mother back from the dead, twelve-year-old Emmaline decides that the only way to bring her father back will be to make the ghost machine work, or destroy it forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD DESKorman, Gordon.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KORKeating, Jess
Summary: Nikki Tesla is a genius, so mostly she finds school boring, and amuses herself by inventing things, like her mysterious missing father; trouble is most of her inventions have serious, lethal potential (like the death ray, which just blew a hole in her floor); so she and her ferret are hustled off to the special Genius Academy with classmates who are equally exceptional, although she still...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KEADavid, Erica
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION DAVCopies Available at Interlochen
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED DAVAronson, Billy
Summary: 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!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ARORuiz, Rachel (Rachel Marie)
Summary: Harry's latest invention--a Superhero Robot programmed to do chores--malfunctions, and the robot goes out of control, creating chaos at school.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2018
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Summary: Ten-year-old Angie DelMar is sure that there is something creepy and dangerous about her new neighbor, Ms. Doody: somebody who has a book entitled The ABCs of World Domination is obviously up to no good; but when Angie and her friends steal the growth serum intended to create giant insects they accidentally release it at the local day care--and the town is suddenly besieged by giant screaming...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ATWBeaty, Andrea
Summary: "Rosie Revere is no stranger to flops and fails, kerfuffles and catastrophes. After all, she's an engineer, and engineering is all about perseverance! But sometimes, Rosie has a really important project to tackle -- one that feels much bigger than herself. When Rosie's beloved Aunt Rose and her pals the Raucous Riveters -- a gaggle of fun-loving gals who built airplanes during World War II --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC BEAMcAnulty, Stacy
Summary: "When Goldie Blox lets down her BFF Ruby Rails, she is determined to make it up by throwing her friend the best birthday bash ever"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED MCARuiz, Rachel (Rachel Marie)
Summary: The new student in Harry's second grade class is ruining recess by being a bully--can one of Harry's superhero inventions help him befriend the bully and save recess?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2018