Higginson, Sheila Sweeny

Summary: Have you ever wondered what you could do to change the world? Find out how kids are helping the environment, inventing incredible medical devices, aiding the homeless, designing apps so other kids won't ever have to eat alone in the cafeteria, and more! Learn all about what they've come up with and how their ideas are changing lives in this story of four amazing kids everyone should meet!...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2019

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE HIG

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR RED HIG

Quezon, Lynn Ng

Summary: "A fictionalized account of Margaret E. Knight's struggle to win legal rights to the invention of the paper-bag machine. Fifteen-year-old Mattie holds a rare position at Columbia Paper: Unlike the other girls and women, she doesn't run machines or hand-fold paper bags. She's a mechanic. In her first job at a cotton mill, she invented a device to keep women from being injured by flying shuttles....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Santa Monica Press Teen 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC QUE

Colson, Mary

Summary: "This title teaches readers how to stop dreaming about becoming an inventor--and take steps to make their dreams come true! Helpful tips for finding inspiration, keeping an ideas journal and always thinking about how to improve things will help your reader inventing in no time! An activity at the end of the book encourages readers to invent their own board game and test it out."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Raintree 2014

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 600 COL

Summary: Join a brilliant young inventor named Lewis as he sets off on a time-traveling journey to find the family he never knew. In the world of 2037, hip-hoppin' frogs and dogs that wear glasses are as common as talking dinosaurs. In an amazing twist, Lewis discovers that the fate of the future rests in his hands, but he can't save it alone. He meets the wacky Robinson family, who help him learn to...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MEE

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family Meet 2007

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MEE RATED G

St. George, Judith

Summary: Presents some of the characteristics of inventors by describing the inventions of people such as Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, and Eli Whitney.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2002

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J608.7 STG

Summary: Foster children Andi and Bruce have been placed with a flaky couple who care more for their aspiring rock careers than their charges. Their mischievous tendencies repeatedly get them into trouble. After a close call with the local pound, the kids end up searching for Friday, their secretly adopted dog, in an abandoned old hotel where they find several other stray dogs seeking shelter. They,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2009

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY HOT