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Questioneers volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
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A young aspiring engineer must first conquer her fear of failure.
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In this book, Bill Hammack, better known as The Engineer Guy, takes us on a whirlwind tour of how humans built the world we know today. From the grand stone arches of medieval cathedrals to the mundane modern soda can, Hammack explains the golden rule of thumb that underlies every new building technique, every technological advancement, and every creative solution that leads us one step closer to a better, more functional world. Perfect for readers...
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Eddie Becker has the idea of a lifetime, and creates plans for what he promises is going to be a million-dollar invention. Then the plans get stolen. Worst of all, after Jigsaw does some digging, he suspects the principal may be the thief! Now Jigsaw has to invent a gadget of his own to find out the truth.
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Here is an intriguing exploration of the ways in which the history of the Spanish Conquest has been misread and passed down to become popular knowledge of these events. The book offers a fresh account of the activities of the best-known conquistadors and explorers, including Columbus, Cortes, and Pizarro. Using a wide array of sources, historian Matthew Restall highlights seven key myths, uncovering the source of the inaccuracies and exploding the...
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Call them America's Tinkerpreneurs- unsung innovators from the past who commercialized their "little" ideas to create products, companies, wealth, and opportunities that thrive today. Enlisting the nation's first venture capitalist, they were tireless, self-made, and largely self-taught. They raised our standard of living with the creation of everyday items we take for granted, from razors to bottle caps, flashlights to bridge cables. And, yes, they...
9) Jackpot
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Swindle mysteries volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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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.
10) Unleashed
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Swindle mysteries volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
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Luthor the Doberman, a former attack dog, has a good home with Savannah Drysdale, but every time a certain truck passes he goes into a frenzy, while Griffin Bing is caught up in trying to beat his rival, Darren Vader, at an invention contest.
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Questioneers (Chapter books) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When Rosie is unable to invent a contraption to help one of Aunt Rose's Raucous Riveters friends, she calls on classmates Iggy Peck and Ada Twist to help.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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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.
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My weird school volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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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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In this entertaining eBooklet, renowned deep thinkers Jimmy Russell and Jack Goldstein discuss the ten greatest inventions they believe humankind has ever seen, using their own unique perspectives on the world in which we live. The result is an entertaining read, and - being careful to distinguish between inventions and discoveries - many readers may be surprised at what appears on the list and what does not. Informative, fun and vaguely educational,...
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Nine remarkable men produced inventions that changed the world. The printing press, the telephone, powered flight and recording and many others have made the modern world what it is. But who were the men who had these ideas and made reality of them? As David Angus shows, they were very different – quiet, boisterous, confident, withdrawn – but all had a moment of vision allied to single-minded determination to battle through numerous prototypes...
16) Robots in Space
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Robots help us understand our universe. Some fly to distant planets. Others work alongside astronauts in space. And some drive across the surface of Mars. How do these robots work, and what are they doing today? Read this book to find out!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Over the course of history, famous people made mistakes that were so monumental they could never escape them, no matter how brilliant their successes! Ferdinand Magellan is credited as the first man to sail around the world ... but he only actually made it halfway. His terrible treatment of everyone he met cut his life journey short. Queen Isabella of Spain is remembered for financing Columbus's expeditions-and for creating the Spanish Inquisition....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Neglected by her father who spends all of his time building a ghost machine to bring her mother back from the dead, twelve-year-old Emmaline decides that the only way to bring her father back will be to make the machine work, or destroy it forever.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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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.
20) Edison's alley
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Accelerati trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
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"Nick and his friends race against their foes to retrieve more pieces of Tesla's free energy transmitter, only to see them fall into the hands of the Accelerati's shadowy leader"--Provided by publisher.
Nick has learned that the strange antiques in his attic bedroom were left there by the eccentric inventor Nikola Tesla, pieces of his Far Range Energy Emitter, capable of transmitting "free energy" to the globe. Members of the Accelerati, a menacing...
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