Clare, Gwendolyn
Summary: After an experiment goes wrong, three science prodigies from two differnet time periods meet in a strange, seemingly adandonded city, and burdened with a glitchy time machine, an android time cop hot on their trail, and some tangled temporal mechanics to unravel, they set out to save the Earth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel & Friends 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CLAKeating, 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 KEACanin, Ethan
Summary: In this mesmerizing novel, Ethan Canin, the New York Times bestselling author of America America and other acclaimed works of fiction, explores the mysteries of a father, a son, and a family, as well as the nature of genius, jealousy, ambition, and love.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CANDragoon, Leigh
Summary: Teens June, a military prodigy born into wealth, and Day, a criminal from the slums, are brought together and face plague, war, and a powerful, common enemy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam' s Sons 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 LEGKeyes, Daniel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall & Co. 1995
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1990
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KEYBrowning, James
Summary: "The Fracking King follows Winston Crwth--a boarding-school kid, loner, and Scrabble prodigy--who becomes an unlikely hero in the fight to stop fracking in Pennsylvania. Truth is a rare commodity in politics, and the idea of "winning" a debate as cleanlyand simply as you'd win a Scrabble game can seem impossible. But with the truth on his side, a jar of toxic "frackwater," and the belief that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROHeng, Rachel
Summary: "A sweeping novel set in Singapore during the years leading up to its independence from British colonial powers, about one young boy from a rural fishing family and the love story that will shape his life and complicate the fate of his larger community"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Book 2023
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Summary: An unapologetic filmmaker uses the stories of those around her to create movies that bring her both critical acclaim and ire from the people whose secrets she has exposed. By the author of America Pacifica.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Rider Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NORFoer, Jonathan Safran
Summary: Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is a precocious Francophile who idolizes Stephen Hawking and plays the tambourine extremely well. He's also a boy struggling to come to terms with his father's death in the World Trade Center attacks. As he searches New York City for the lock that fits a mysterious key he left behind, Oskar discovers much more than he could have imagined.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOEWolitzer, Meg.
Summary: The creativity that is rewarded at age fifteen is not always enough to propel one through life at age thirty, and in adulthood not everyone can sustain what seemed to be their adolescent specialness. Jules Handler, an aspiring comic actress, eventually resigns herself to a more practical occupation and lifestyle. But her two best friends, now married to each other, become shockingly successful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Wolitzer 2013Edison, Chris
Summary: Young inventor Marie can't believe her luck - she's spending her summer holidays in California, at the high-tech headquarters of Vance Corps! She and the other super-clever campers get to build robots, do super-cool science experiments and test out awesome gadgets. But not everyone is a happy camper . . .
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kane Miller, a division of EDC publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC EDISorosiak, Carlie
Summary: Clementine is different from other mice: she can calculate the speed of light and she dreams in Latin. The scientists say she's a genius and put her through test after test. Clementine is proud of being a good lab mouse, but she's lonely. Her only snatches of friendship occur during her late-night visits with a chimpanzee named Rosie. When a compassionate lab technician frees Clementine, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Books US, a division of Candlewick Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SORClare, Gwendolyn
Summary: A certain pen, a certain book, and a certain person can craft entirely new worlds through a branch of science called scriptology. Elsa comes from one such world that was written into creation by her mother a noted scriptologist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Imprint 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CLAKeating, Jess
Summary: "Someone who goes by the name of "V" is planning to unleash a lethal virus that could destroy the human race, and it is up to Nikki Tesla and her friends from the Genius Academy (which has been blamed for an international incident and shut down), to uncover the villain (who is closer to them than they realize) and find a way to stop the biological attack--an effort that will cost Nikki her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KEAKeating, 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 KEADe la Cruz, Melissa
Summary: "After passing an intense exam, Edwin Edgefield becomes one of the lucky few to attend an exclusive weekend at the mysterious high-tech institute of the uber-famous-ultrabazillionaire-genius-recluse Onasander Octagon. Edwin hopes he'll meet other kids like him--kids who will accept him even though he's got a photographic memory, genius-level math skills, and some very specific personality...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Hyperion 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DE LPratt, Jarod (Jarod Rhys)
Summary: Robbie and Daphne are in a full-on Lemonade War, one that Robbie is quickly losing. Desperate, he tries to discover Daphne's secret recipe. Her lemonade is just lemonade, isn't it? There can't be some secret ingredient that compels people to buy it, can there? It wouldn't cause the end of the world if her lemonade fell into the wrong hands. Would it?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 PRACooper, Nancy
Summary: "Today, Amik is expecting her beaver cousins for a special visit, and she can't wait to show them her home. But as the visitors arrive, Amik suddenly realizes that her little sister, Nishiime, has disappeared. Where could she have gone? As Amik shows her cousins some of her favorite haunts, the reader also learns how beavers help all the other animals in the forest: they cut down poplar trees...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books 2023