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Author
Series
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Description
Kelly is an ingenious inventor with 43 inventions to her credit and she is only in third grade. Then she meets Albert and he is determined to prove that he is the real gadget wiz.
Author
Lexile measure
1370L
Language
English
Description
Blessed with enormous talents and the energy and ambition to go with them, Franklin was a statesman, author, inventor, printer, and scientist. He helped draft the Declaration of Independence and later was involved in negotiating the peace treaty with Britain that ended the Revolutionary War. He also invented bifocals, a stove that is still manufactured, a water-harmonica, and the lightning rod. Franklin's extraordinary range of interests and accomplishments...
5) Jimmy on ice
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Spotlight/Nickelodeon
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Jimmy Neutron finds himself being hunted by angry cave people after his new 900 SPF sunblock fights the sun's rays a little too well and starts a new ice age.
Author
Series
Frank Einstein volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In his Grandpa Al's garage workshop, child genius Frank Einstein tries to invent a robot that can learn on its own, and after an accident brings wisecracking Klink and overly expressive Klank to life, they set about helping Frank perfect his Antimatter Motor until his archnemesis, T. Edison, steals the robots for his doomsday plan.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
1070L
Language
English
Description
The stories of twenty ingenious young Americans who have filed patents with the U.S. Patent Office include Chester Greenwood, who invented ear muffs, and Vanessa Hess, who created colored car wax.
9) Eureka!
Publisher
UXL
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
Presents over 600 entries describing inventions and scientific discoveries and the people responsible for them.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of how women throughout the ages have responded to situations confronting them in daily life by inventing such items as correction fluid, space helmets, and disposable diapers.
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
Briefly introduces the life of Benjamin Franklin, touching on his inventions and his contributions to the city of Philadelphia as well as to the newly formed United States of America.
12) Fault line
Author
Language
English
Description
When an inventor client is murdered and he himself is attacked, attorney Alex Treven reluctantly turns for help to his estranged older brother, Ben, an undercover agent in the War on Terror.
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publications Co
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
Profiles eleven inventors between the ages of eight and fourteen, describes the steps involved in inventing a new product, and discusses contests, patents, lawyers, and clubs.
17) The time pincher
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Spotlight/Nickelodeon
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Jimmy uses his time machine to bring Thomas Edison to the present, but Jimmy must find a way to return Mr. Edison to the year 1899.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The wheel was invented some 5,000 years ago, and the modern suitcase in the mid-nineteenth century, but it wasn't until the 1970s that someone successfully married the two. What was the hold up? For writer and journalist Katrine Marçal, the answer is both shocking and simple: because "real men" carried their bags, no matter how heavy. There were rolling suitcases before the '70s, but they were marketed as a niche product for (the presumably few)...