A young aspiring engineer must first conquer her fear of failure.

A structural engineer examines the seven most basic building blocks of engineering that have shaped the modern world--

It sure is good to be Bill Sure these days. He's the most famous kid in his school...and the world! His invention, the All Ball, is flying off the shelves. Now Billy is hosting an online contest to help other kid inventors. Ideas like the Sibling Silencer. No-wash Socks, and a pencil that does all your homework start pouring in. With so many great ideas, it certainly won't be easy to pick a winner. - It also won't be easy for Billy to keep the secret...

Follows the adventures of a young boy and his neighbor friend as they travel through a computer portal into outer space, where they explore such mysteries as black holes and the origins of the universe, while trying to evade an evil scientist.

Readers will discover the science behind the telephone invention and learn about Alexander Graham Bell in Super Simple Telephone Projects. Then do the science-based telephone projects like making a faraday box or creating sound waves. This book has a timeline, easy-to-follow steps, how-to pictures, and, best of all, it's written for kids! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Applied to STEM & STEAM Concepts of Learning...

Ben Franklin loved to swim and, at the age of eleven, he was determined to swim like a fish - fins and all! This fascinating and lively account of young Ben's earliest invention follows the budding scientist's journey as he tests and retests his swim fins. That first big splash led Ben to even more innovations and inventions.

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.

Overturn everything you knew about history's greatest minds in this raucous and hilarious book, where it turns out there's a finer line between genius and idiot than we've previously known. As Albert Einstein almost certainly never said, everyone is a genius - but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. So begins Katie Spalding's spunky takedown of the Western canon, and how genius...

Inspired by a teacher who believes each of them is a genius, a class of special-needs students invents something that could convince the whole school they are justifiably proud to be "Junkyard Wonders."