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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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From the New York Times-bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From and Everything Bad Is Good for You, a new look at the power and legacy of great ideas. In this illustrated volume, Steven Johnson explores the history of innovation over centuries, tracing facets of modern life (refrigeration, clocks, and eyeglass lenses, to name a few) from their creation by hobbyists, amateurs, and entrepreneurs to their unintended historical consequences....
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Language
English
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The first book by the reclusive inventor of the world's most iconic puzzle THE RUBIK'S CUBE. Erno Rubik inspires us with what he's learned in a lifetime of creating, curiosity, and discovery.
Erno Rubik was a child when he first became obsessed with puzzles of all kinds. "Puzzles," he writes, "bring out important qualities in each of us: concentration, curiosity, a sense of play, the eagerness to discover a solution." To Rubik puzzles aren't just...
5) Sky jumpers
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Twelve-year-old Hope lives in a post World War III town called White Rock where everyone must participate in Inventions Day, though Hope's inventions always fail. Her unique skill set comes in hand when a group of bandits invades the town--
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Publisher
National Geographic Kids
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
112 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents information about 125 interesting new inventions that showcase cutting edge technology, or are just clever and fun, from a hotel that floats in the air and a drone delivery service, to a toilet aquarium and self-driving toy cars.
7) Jackpot
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
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.
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
45 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The Cat in the Hat profiles famous inventors throughout the ages, including Johannes Gutenberg, Eli Whitney, Louis Daguerre, Thomas Edison, Garrett Morgan, and Tim Berners-Lee.
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Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
304 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A history of invention throughout the course of human history highlights the most important inventions, innovators, ideas, and discoveries organized under such headings as Transportation, Health, and Space.
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Series
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English
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The author of Sneaky Uses for Everyday Things is back with an all-new compendium of creative inventions you can make at home.
Did you know that your standard issue of Sports Illustrated can be turned into more than twenty useful gadgets? In Sneakier Uses for Everyday Things, Cy Tymony reveals how an ordinary magazine can become many extraordinary gadgets such as a compass, hearing aid, magnifier, peashooter,
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Series
Ninja kid volume 1
Language
English
Description
An awkward misfit wakes up on his tenth birthday to discover that he has spontaneously developed ninja powers overnight and become the world's only remaining defender.
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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Language
English
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Description
"Extraordinary.... A feast of history, an expert tour through thousands of years of war and conquest." —Jennifer Carson, New York Times Book Review
In this far-reaching foray into the millennia-long relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-author Avis Lang examine how the methods and tools of astrophysics have been enlisted in the service of war. Spanning
...13) Zero contact
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Follows five characters based all over the world, connected only by their devotion to the late founder and tech titan Finley Hart. The characters are then forced to work together to shut down Hart's most secret invention, a machine that is either the solution to mankind's problems or the end of life on earth.
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Language
English
Description
"Materials science, wedged as it is between the ... fields of chemistry and physics, teaches us that everything in our world is due to the interactions of atoms. If you can find out how they interact to make up the physical world, then you can also change the way that atoms act to make them do new things and, as we develop new materials, we discover that materials and humans are constantly being molded by each other. [This book] shows how materials...
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Series
Frankie Sparks third-grade inventor volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Frankie Sparks, the self-proclaimed "best inventor in the third grade," does research and creates a tool to try to persuade her classmates that a rat would make the best class pet.
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Series
My weirdest school volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
A.J. and the gang from Ella Mentery School start a company to sell their brand new invention-a heated, scented, talking toilet seat!--
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Language
English
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An animal's body helps it survive. Special body parts with special shapes and features help animals find food, take shelter, reproduce, and stay safe from predators. Fully decodable text features high-frequency words, and words with the short e and l sounds. Also features tips for teachers and caregivers along with additional information at the end to build the reader's background knowledge of the topic. Downloadable Teacher Notes available.
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Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
79 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Read about 10 inventors and their inventions that stemmed from a mistake. Making mistakes doesn't mean you failed . . . it means you made something totally new!"--Provided by publisher.
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