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 WALRuiz, 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
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Summary: An inquisitive bear ventures into People Town, where he makes quite the curious discovery. What is this? A springy thing-a bouncy thing-a sit-on-it, jump-on-it thing! It's a bit too cumbersome to bring back to the woods, however, so Bear runs home to tell his friends. But none of his friends are willing to help, so Bear invents a "Rolly-Rumpity" to wheel home the "Thingity-Jig." Through trial...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2022
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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 BLASnider, Brandon T.
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 SNIGreenburg, J. C. (Judith C.)
Summary: After escaping from the belly of a whale, Andrew and his cousin Judy face more dangers from their underwater nemesis, Soggy Bob, in the Great Barrier Reef.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE GRECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED AL 7Salazar, Alicia
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 SALKelley, 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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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 BAKAllegra, 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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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ALLKorman, 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, Call number: J FIC KORAronson, 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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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE RUIGrabenstein, Chris
Summary: A twelve-year-old boy, worried that his parents may divorce, discovers that an island in the middle of the lake where he is spending the summer is the testing grounds of the mysterious Dr. Libris, who may have invented a way to make the characters in books come alive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC GRAKeating, 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 KEAHopper, Ada
Summary: "The town of Newtonburg has been invaded by all sorts of creepy-crawlies from mosquitoes to bees to ants and more! What's worse is that they are all mysteriously swarming toward Dr. Bunsen's house when the kids get shrunk down to the size of insects"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC HOPGutman, Dan.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTrophy 2007
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Series Gutman 2007Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED GUTJoyce, William.
Summary: When Pappy bumps his head before bedtime, Olie cheers him up by inventing a super silly ray, and then they both become happy, sleepy robots.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Laura Geringer Books 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC JOYGreenburg, J. C. (Judith C.)
Summary: Andrew, his cousin Judy, and Thudd the robot wind up at a garbage dump when Andrew's latest invention, the Goa Constrictor, shrinks them to the size of beetles and swallows them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE GRECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED AL 13Jules, Jacqueline
Summary: When a very important inventor needs rescuing, Freddie Ramos activates his special sneakers and becomes a superhero.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman 2010
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE JULDavid, 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 J Series, Call number: JBR RED DAVGreenburg, J. C. (Judith C.)
Summary: When Uncle Al is kidnapped by Dr. Kron-Tox and sent to prehistoric times, Andrew, his cousin Judy, and Thudd the robot try to use Uncle Al's latest invention, the Time-A-Tron, to rescue him, and learn firsthand about the origins of the universe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE GRECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED AL 9Benton, Jim.
Summary: Frannie tries to prevent chaos when her new lab assistant, Igor, a dog of many breeds, accidentally lets loose a giant, fifty-foot, arrow-shooting cupid.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2004