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Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
In an alternate nineteenth-century America that is still a colony of Britain's industrial empire, sixteen-year-old Charlotte and her fellow refugees' struggle to survive is interrupted by a newcomer with no memory, bearing secrets about a terrible future.
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Describes the friendship between the two inventors and how Thomas Edison's advice to the young Henry Ford inspired Ford to work on his automobiles until he came up with an inexpensive, reliable version which became the Model T.
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Pub. Date
[2006]
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Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen murdered his wife and tried to escape London on a ship to America in the early twentieth century. He was caught in part due to the new invention of the wireless by Guglielmo Marconi, which was used on the ship. Larson draws from letters, memoirs, Scotland Yard reports, and other documents in telling the story and filling in its historical context of the Edwardian era.
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As a little girl raised amid the hardships of Michigan's Copper Country, Fenna Vos learned to focus on her own survival. That ability sustains her even now as the Second World War rages in faraway countries. Though she performs onstage as the assistant to an unruly escape artist, behind the curtain she's the mastermind of their act. Ultimately, controlling her surroundings and eluding traps of every kind helps her keep a lingering trauma at bay. Yet...
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Brings together, for the first time, the best of Gladwell's writing from The New Yorker in the past decade, including: the bittersweet tale of the inventor of the birth control pill; the dazzling inventions of the pasta sauce pioneer Howard Moscowitz; spotlighting Ron Popeil, the king of the American kitchen; and the secrets of Cesar Millan, the "dog whisperer." Gladwell also explores intelligence tests, ethnic profiling and "hindsight bias," and...
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Educated in math and science by her mother, the only legitimate child of Lord Byron is introduced into London society before forging a bond with Charles Babbage and using her talents to become the world's first computer programmer.
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...
10) Festergrimm
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Series
Legends of Eerie-on-Sea volume 4
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Herbie Lemon, Lost-and-Founder at the Grand Nautilus Hotel, and his fearless friend Violet Parma have unearthed many secrets in their village of Eerie-on-Sea: secrets lurking beneath the waves, lapping onto the beaches, and lying behind locked doors. When their brilliant and ruthless nemesis, Sebastian Eels, returns with a plan to open the long-shuttered waxworks museum, Herbie and Violet suspect nefarious motives. Their investigation leads them...
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Whether you're an inventor, designer, writer or programmer, you need to understand the language of intellectual property law. Otherwise, you can't intelligently deal with intellectual property issues such as: who owns creative works or valuable information; how owners can protect and enforce their ownership rights; how disputes between intellectual property owners can be resolved, and how ownership rights can best be transferred to others. With Patent,...
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Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
"The Daring Book for Girls" is the manual for everything that adventurous girls need to know from female heroes in history to secret note-passing skills, science projects to friendship bracelets, the perfect cartwheel to the eternal mystery of what boys are thinking.
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Series
Pub. Date
2000.
Description
Following up on the great success of "I Spy Super Challenger" and "I Spy Gold Challenger"--with combined sales of more than 800,000 copies--"I Spy Extreme Challenger" is even harder and more fun than readers can imagine. Toys, animals, food, and utensils are just some of the hidden objects to find.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"This wonderfully quirky book will change the way you look at your desk forever with stories of accidental genius, bitter rivalries, and an appreciation for everyday objects, like the humble but perfectly designed paper clip and the utilitarian, irreplaceable pencil. How many of humanity's brightest ideas started out on a scrap of paper, a Post-It, or in the margins of a notebook? In a delightfully witty and fresh voice, James Ward--co-founder of...
15) Elon Musk
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Pub. Date
2023.
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From the author of Steve Jobs and other best-selling biographies comes an intimate story of a controversial businessman who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration and artificial intelligence.
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Nick and Tesla volume 1
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Nick and Tesla are bright 11-year-old siblings with a knack for science, electronics, and getting into trouble. When their parents mysteriously vanish, they?re sent to live with their Uncle Newt, a brilliant inventor who engineers top-secret gadgets for a classified government agency. It?s not long before Nick and Tesla are embarking on adventures of their own?engineering all kinds of outrageous MacGyverish contraptions to save their skin: 9-volt...
18) The mouse watch
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Series
Mouse Watch volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"Around the globe, exceptional mice live in the shadows. Under the direction of famed mouse inventor Gadget Hackwrench, they work together as a team to solve big problems using small gadgets. They are highly trained. They are nearly invisible. And they love cheese".--
19) Field tripped
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Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
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...
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Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Eleven-year-old Julian Calendar thought changing schools would mean leaving his "nerdy" persona behind, but instead he forms an alliance with fellow inventors Greta and Ben and works with them to prevent an adult from using one of their gadgets for nefarious purposes.
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