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English
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The only legitimate child of Lord Byron, the most brilliant, revered, and scandalous of the Romantic poets, Ada was destined for fame long before her birth. Estranged from Ada's father, who was infamously "mad, bad, and dangerous to know," Ada's mathematician mother is determined to save her only child from her perilous Byron heritage. Banishing fairy tales and make-believe from the nursery, Ada's mother provides her daughter with a rigorous education...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
All his life, Dawson has been inventing things, repairing toys in unusual ways, and helping clean up his neighborhood by reusing discarded objects, but when his Vacu-Maniac malfunctions it is his friend Mooey whose brainpower saves the day.
4) Airman
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
412 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the late nineteenth century, when Conor Broekhart discovers a conspiracy to overthrow the king, he is branded a traitor, imprisoned, and forced to mine for diamonds under brutal conditions while he plans a daring escape from Little Saltee prison by way of a flying machine that he must design, build, and, hardest of all, trust to carry him to safety.
Author
Series
Long Earth volume 3
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First U. S. Edition.
Physical Desc
351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The third novel in Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter's "Long Earth" series, which Io9 calls "a brilliant science fiction collaboration.""--
Author
Series
Frank Einstein volume 3
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
171 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Frank Einstein and his best friend Watson, along with artificial-intelligence entities, Klink and Klank, find themselves in competition with T. Edison to unlock the power behind the science of the human body.
Author
Series
Publisher
Howard Books
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
viii, 418 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cullen McNamara gambles everything to display his latest invention at the Chicago World's Fair, but in order to communicate with potential buyers over the noise, he hires Della Wentworth to teach him to lip-read.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
384 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Lord Randolph Cavanaugh travels to Buckinghamshire to inspect a recent investment, he discovers the determined and intelligent Felicia Throgmorton struggling to keep her late father's estate together.
Author
Series
House of robots volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Fifth grader Sammy Hayes-Rodriguez has to find a solution when his robot 'brother' has repeated malfunctions at school and a newer model robot steps in as competition--and his mother's job is in jeopardy as a result"--
10) Flubber
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Brilliant but befuddled Professor Phillip Brainard is on the brink of inventing a revolutionary energy source and missing his wedding for the third time! He develops a miraculous elastic goo flubber that enables anything its applied to, to bounce super high and fast.
11) Robot revolution
Author
Series
House of robots volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Robots on strike! Sammy's underappreciated mechanical helpers cause chaos in the house! It's up to Sammy and his disabled sister Maddie to keep the peace until his inventor mom reveals her secret project...and why it was worth the wait"--
Author
Series
Frank Einstein volume 6
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
pages cm.
Language
English
Description
"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 studying the science and mysteries of the universe!"--
Author
Series
The Inventors volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
376 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
George and Ada embark on a journey to the Galapagos to restore George's family name and save the world from Don Nadie, head of the nefarious Society of Nobodies.
Author
Series
Magic Tree House volume 32
Publisher
Random House
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Jack and Annie are whisked back in time to Old Philadelphia by the magic tree house to meet the Founding Father, journalist, and famous inventor Benjamin Franklin.
15) House of robots
Author
Series
House of robots volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Fifth-grader Sammy Hayes-Rodriguez struggles to fit in when his inventor mother requires him to take her latest creation, a robotic 'brother,' to school with him to learn to become a student"--
16) Field tripped
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
260 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The fifth graders of Liberty Falls Elementary have a reputation for trouble, but they still have a field trip to the mansion of Edward Minks (local inventor, founder of the town, and great-great-great grandfather of fifth-grader Eddie). While there, they search for secret inventions that are rumored to be hidden in the mansion--but they find that they are not the only ones searching, and somehow this class of trouble-makers must work together to thwart...
Author
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
24 p. : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Scooby and the gang were at the Coolsville Robot Expo. Professor Tinkerwell, Velma's old teacher invites them to be his guests. After one of the Monsterbots attacks the crowd, Mystery Inc. sets a trap to find out who is responsible for the attacks on both the crowd and themselves.
Author
Publisher
Hallmark
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Megan Turner is in love with the past. As a tour guide at a beautiful historic mansion, she tells visitors about its original owner, Charles Whitley. An inventor and businessman in the early 1900s, he rose from poverty to wealth, only to disappear without a trace. Charles was always intrigued by the future. He just never expected to go there. But when he repairs a mysterious clock he bought on his travels, he's transported to the twenty-first century,...