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Author
Series
Captain Underpants volume 12
Language
English
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Description
George and Harold, and their doubles, Yesterday George and Yesterday Harold, have a good thing going. Two of them go to school, while the other two hide in the tree house and play video games all day-then they switch! But when their malicious gym teacher, Mr Meaner, creates a method of mind control that turns their fellow students into attentive, obedient, perfect children, the future of all humanity will be in their hands!
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
A little girl has a wonderful idea. With the help of her canine assistant, she is going to make the most magnificent thing! She knows just how it will look. She knows just how it will work. But making the most magnificent thing turns out to be harder than she thinks.
4) Slob
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Picked on, overweight genius Owen tries to invent a television that can see the past to find out what happened the day his parents were killed.
Author
Series
Accelerati trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"With a plot combining science and the supernatural, four kids are caught up in a dangerous plan concocted by the eccentric inventor, Nikola Tesla"--
Author
Series
George Greenby books volume 1
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
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Description
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.
9) On the reef
Author
Series
Andrew lost volume 7
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
After escaping from the belly of a whale, Andrew and his cousin Judy face more dangers from their underwater nemesis, Soggy Bob, in the Great Barrier Reef.
11) I can build it!
Author
Series
Princess Truly (An Acorn Book) volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In rhyming text Princess Truly, super girl, uses her magic curls to build things, including a bike for her brother, who has outgrown his old one, and a super snack machine.
Author
Series
Steel Trapp volume 1
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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Description
On a two-day train trip to enter his invention in the National Science Competition in Washington, D.C., fourteen-year-old Steven "Steel" Trapp, possessor of a remarkable photographic memory, becomes embroiled in an international plot of kidnapping and bribery that may have links to terrorists.
14) Stealing air
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Three sixth-grade boys band together to build an experimental aircraft, enduring social and practical difficulties in the process.
16) Jabari tries
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Jabari is inventing a machine that will fly all the way across the yard! But making it go from CRASH to WHOOSH will take grit, patience, and maybe even a little help from his sister.
17) Mousenet
Author
Series
Mousenet volume 1
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Sent to live with her chef father and his wife in Oregon after having stayed with her inventor uncle and scientist mother in Cincinnati, ten-year-old misfit Megan is lonely until she starts working with some computer-savvy mice to try to save Mouse Nation--and the planet.
Author
Series
Creature Department novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Elliot Von Doppler and his friend Leslie think nothing ever happens in Bickleburgh, except inside the gleaming headquarters of DENKi-3000--the world's eighth-largest electronics factory. When Uncle Archie vanishes, it's up to Elliot, Leslie, and every one of the unusual 'employees' to create an invention so astonishing it will save the Creature Department"--
Author
Series
Accelerati trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"It is up to Nick Slate to find the last of Nikola Tesla's powerful inventions--or face devastating consequences"--
20) Under water
Author
Series
Andrew lost volume 5
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Andrew, his cousin Judy, and Thudd the robot accidentally set off in Uncle Al's latest invention, a Volkswagen Beetle converted for deep sea exploration, and try to prevent the evil Soggy Bob from taking a rare ocean creature.
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