Breen, Steve
Summary: "Young Violet's only friend is her dog, Orville, until one of her homemade flying machines takes her to the rescue of a Boy Scout troop in trouble."--Title page verso.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BREThomas, J. E.
Summary: "The kids at Benjamin Banneker College Prep are a little... competitive. Okay. They're a LOT competitive. The minute Principal Yee announces an epic competition for the golden B-B trophy, seventh-grader Frederick Douglass Zezzmer knows he has to win. But it won't be easy. The competition doesn't just include science, technology, engineering and math. It also has arts and sports. Not Doug's best...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC THOBlakemore, 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 BLAScieszka, Jon
Summary: More clever science experiments, funny jokes, and robot hijinks await readers in book five of the New York Times bestselling Frank Einstein chapter book series from the mad scientist team of Jon Scieszka and Brian Biggs. The perfect combination to engage and entertain readers, the series features real science facts with adventure and humor, making these books ideal for STEM education. This...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD SCISosna-Spear, Quinn
Summary: Against the wishes of his mortician mother, Hadorah, twelve-year-old Walter and classmate Cordelia take a hearse on a road trip to meet legendary inventor Flasterhorn, who once mentored Walter's long-dead father.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2019
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Sosna-Spear 2019Edison, 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 EDIScieszka, Jon
Summary: Boy genius Frank Einstein finds himself in competition with his classmate and archrival T. Edison and his sign-language-speaking sidekick, Mr. Chimp, over Frank's newest invention: the EvoBlaster Belt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2016
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Scieszka 2016Young, E. L.
Summary: In London, the teenaged geniuses of STORM, a secret organization dedicated to eliminating the world's misery through science and technology, uncover plans for a deadly weapon and race to find and dismantle it, then confront the corrupt scientist behind the scheme.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2008
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC YouScheele, Kyle
Summary: A boy and his inventor mother embark on a journey to other universes in pursuit of the perfect ice cream sundae, with everything on it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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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 WEIScieszka, Jon
Summary: Boy genius and inventor Frank Einstein and his robot pals Klink (intelligent) and Klank (sort-of intelligent) study the science of ecology and conservation as they try to stop classmate and archrival T. Edison and his loggers from destroying the Midville Forest Preserve.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J Fiction Series Scieszka 2017Fleming, Candace.
Summary: In the summer of 1851, with encouragement and ideas provided by his family, an inventor builds a working submarine and takes his family for a ride. Includes notes about Lodner Phillips, the real inventor on whom the story is based.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret Ferguson Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FLEHarper, Charise Mericle.
Summary: Superhero Veggieman, better known as Wedgieman, faces off against Bad Dude, an inventor whose Make-Things-Disappear Machine causes trouble on the playground.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2013
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE HARSnider, 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 SNIPounder, Sibéal
Summary: Based on the major motion picture--an intoxicating mix of magic and music, mayhem and emotion, all told with fabulous heart and humor--Wonka introduces readers to a young Willy Wonka, chock-full of ideas and determined to change the world one delectable bite at a time...proving that the best things in life begin with a dream, and if you're lucky enough to meet Willy Wonka, anything is possible.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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Summary: "Frank Einstein (kid-genius, scientist, and inventor) and his best friend Watson, along with Klink (a self-assembled artificial-intelligence entity), and Klank (a mostly self-assembled and artificial almost intelligence entity), once again find themselves in competition with T. Edison, their classmate and archrival--this time in the quest to unlock the power behind the science of the human...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Scieszka 2015Quezon, 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....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Santa Monica Press Teen 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC QUESoh, Sarah
Summary: "Tykotech City is a marvelous and peaceful place, filled with technology beyond anyone's wildest dreams. But as power cuts begin to plague the residents, and a sinister force infiltrates the city, the lives of the cityfolk are in terrible danger... It falls to Juniper Mae, a tiny, brave inventor, obsessed with the legends of the Guardian Knights, to overcome her fears and save her city. Can she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flying Eye Books 2023
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Summary: In "What's the Big Idea, Charlie Brown?," the Peanuts gang learn about America's great inventors, including a few who don't often make it into the history books. Join Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and pals for this new adventure that the whole family will enjoy!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Patriot Press 2014
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Summary: When twelve-year-old Parker's father, on the cusp of a technological breakthrough, is kidnapped, Parker is determined to find him, but his search soon uncovers a sinister project that threatens far more than Parker's family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster 2015
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Summary: New adventures await Doctor Proctor, Lisa, and Nilly as they try to protect Oslo, Norway, from invading aliens, enormous snakes in the sewers, seven-legged Peruvian sucking spiders, and sinister waffle irons.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC NESScieszka, Jon
Summary: "Frank Einstein (kid-genius scientist and inventor) and his best friend, Watson, along with intelligent robots Klink and Klank once again find themselves in competition with T. Edison, their classmate and archrival--this time in the quest to unlock the power behind the science of energy"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SCICopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Scieszka 2015Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SCIScieszka, Jon.
Summary: "Frank Einstein (kid-genius, scientist, and inventor) and his best friend Watson, along with Klink (a self-assembled artificial-intelligence entity), and Klank (a mostly self-assembled and artificial almost intelligence entity), once again find themselves in competition with T. Edison, their classmate and archrival--this time in the quest to unlock the power behind the science of the human body"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD SCIDepken, Kristen L.
Summary: "Botasaur is missing! Rusty and Ruby build Tigerbot to find him." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019