"Childhood biographies of sixteen trailblazers in technology, education, business, science, art, and entertainment"--

Examines the remarkable achievements of more than fifty history-shaping inventors, from Leonardo da Vinci and Hideo Shima to Ismail al-Jazari and Sarah E. Goode, to explain how their innovations made important scientific and technological breakthroughs possible.

While working on a service project to clean up a local lake, Tom and his friends begin to question the behavior of famous inventor and project sponsor J.J. Jefferson, who seems unusually interested in the students' inventions.

In 1883 New York, while trying to introduce her mother's flying machine to the men-only Inventors' Guild, twelve-year-old Molly uncovers a plot to destroy the World's Fair.

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.

"Fenna Vos has learned to focus on her own survival-even now, with the Second World War raging in faraway countries. She works on-stage as the assistant to an unruly escape artist-behind the curtain as the mastermind of their act. After all, her honed ability to control her surroundings and elude entrapments, physical or otherwise, reliably suppresses the trauma and tragedy of her youth. For all her calculations, however, Fenna neglects to foresee...

Boy genius and inventor Frank Einstein and his robot pals Klink (intelligent) and Klank (sort-of intelligent) study the science of ecology and conservation as they try to stop classmate and archrival T. Edison and his loggers from destroying the Midville Forest Preserve.

Living in the shadows under the direction of a famed mouse inventor, two recruits-a mouse with a score to settle and a sensitive rat with elite puzzle-solving skills-land at the center of an evil plot by a rogue animal society.

Eliza must retrieve a top secret roll of film from the class bully.