Walstead, 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 WALGeorge, Jennifer
Summary: The young inventor, Rube Goldberg, enlivens his day off by building incredibly complex chain-reaction machines to solve simple, everyday problems--like playing fetch with your dog in the yard without ever actually leaving your room.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GEOPilkey, 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: 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 KELGeorge, Jennifer
Summary: Follows a young Rube Goldberg from morning until night as he uses one complicated invention after another to "simplify" his life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GEOKochalka, James
Summary: "Johnny Boo creates an incredible Ice Cream Computer that can turn anything into delicious ice cream. Old toys that you don't want to play with anymore? Ice cream! Clods of dirt and grass? Ice cream! It works great ... until Squiggle decides to turn himself into ice cream! Then: Johnny Boo time travels to the future, where the Mean Little Boy tries to add him to his butterfly collection. Can...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Top Shelf Productions 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J GRAPHIC KOCAtwood, Megan
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 ATWBaker, 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 BAKBurris, Priscilla
Summary: "Sabrina Sue wants to fly like all the other birds she sees in the sky. Will her flying machine invention be what she needs, or will she find another way to soar?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2023
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Summary: Ethan Cheeseman and his children, ages eight, twelve, and fourteen, hope to settle in a nice small town, at least long enough to complete work on a time machine, but spies and government agents have been pursuing them for two years and are about to catch up.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC SOUStine, R. L.
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 STIGutman, Dan
Summary: "A.J. and the gang from Ella Mentery School start a company to sell their brand new invention-a heated, scented, talking toilet seat!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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3 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED GUTWong, Janet S.
Summary: Once a month--every week in the summer--Steve the electrician dons special gear and, with the help of youngsters who live in his building, dives into a dumpster seeking useful objects that they can transform into imaginative new ones.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC WONG,Gutman, 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 2007Benton, 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. Franny's mom says every mad scientist needs a lab assistant. So for Valentine's Day Franny gets just that -- a Lab assistant. Except Igor isn't a pure Lab. He's also part poodle, part Chihuahua, part beagle, part spaniel, part shepherd -- and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Paperbacks 2004
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BentonGackenbach, Dick.
Summary: After shrinking the dog and his baby sister in his new invention, a Mini-box, Sidney decides to try the box himself and comes out three inches tall.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 1993
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Gackenbach 1993Soup, Cuthbert.
Summary: Ethan Cheeseman takes his children, ages eight, twelve, and fourteen, and Captain Jibby and crew, to the year 1668 to end an ancient family curse and save the children's mother, but damage to the time machine and the arrival of Mr. 5 complicate their return.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Books for Young Readers 2010
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: J FIC SOUWeiner, Ellis.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION WEIFliess, Sue
Summary: When Goldilocks, an inventor, goes for a walk seeking inspiration, three bear engineers visit her bungalow and see that her inventions need a little work to be just right.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2021