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Hooey Higgins volume 2
Pub. Date
2014, ©2010.
Language
English
Description
The inventive skills of Hooey Higgins and his friends are put to the test in an adventure that compels them to invent super-protective pants that they hope will safeguard them from crocodiles, flying toffee apples, and log-flume malfunctions.
Author
Series
Cardboard genius journals volume 2
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Alex Archer is a supergenius and his inventions are made of cardboard, duct tape and other household supplies.
63) Fergus Crane
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Series
Far-flung adventures volume 1
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
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Description
Nine-year-old Fergus Crane's life is filled with classes on the school ship Betty Jeanne, interesting neighbors, and helping with his mother's work until a mysterious box flies into his window and leads him toward adventure.
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Frankie Sparks, third-grade inventor volume 1
Frankie Sparks third-grade inventor volume 1
Frankie Sparks 3rd grade inventor volume 1
Frankie Sparks third-grade inventor volume 1
Frankie Sparks 3rd grade inventor volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"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."--Publisher's description.
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Series
Imagination box volume 1
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"A ten-year-old orphan discovers a box that can make the things he imagines become real and must keep the contraption from getting into the wrong hands with the help of a professor, his granddaughter, and a well-versed finger monkey"--
66) Snaggle doodles
Author
Series
Kids of the Polk Street School volume 8
Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
Description
Emily Arrow has two problems, trying to work in her invention group with bossy Linda Lorca in charge and thinking of a wedding present for Ms. Vincent, the student teacher.
67) This is war
Author
Series
Cats vs. robots volume 1
Language
English
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Description
The longstanding and galaxy-spanning war between cats and robots escalates when each learns of inventions designed to extend their lives, and the potential of the devices is revealed when two kittens come into the lives of twin siblings on Earth.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Neglected by her father who spends all of his time building the ghost machine to bring her mother back from the dead, twelve-year-old Emmaline decides that the only way to bring her father back will be to make the ghost machine work, or destroy it forever.
71) New & improved
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Series
Finley Flowers volume 3
Language
English
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Description
For their first assignment in fourth grade Finley has to think of an invention that will help the world--but when her Supersonic Sibling Sublimator appears to work too well, and her annoying older brother vanishes, only to reappear laughing at the trick he played, Finley comes up with a new invention she is sure will be a hit.
72) If the hat fits
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Series
Language
English
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"It's a new school year with the same old problems: the school is going to run out of money! A local engineering competition might just keep them funded for another year. Can Millie and her friends Pearl and Halinka invent a way out of the mess? With some guidance from their eccentric headmistress Miss Bunsen, anything seems possible."--Provided by publisher.
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.
75) In time
Author
Series
Andrew lost volume 9
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
When Uncle Al is kidnapped by Dr. Kron-Tox and sent to prehistoric times, Andrew, his cousin Judy, and Thudd the robot try to use Uncle Al's latest invention, the Time-A-Tron, to rescue him, and learn first-hand about the origins of the universe.
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Series
Frankie Sparks, third-grade inventor volume 3
Frankie Sparks third-grade inventor volume 3
Frankie Sparks 3rd grade inventor volume 3
Frankie Sparks third-grade inventor volume 3
Frankie Sparks 3rd grade inventor volume 3
Language
English
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Frankie Sparks is excited about her town's team sled design contest but while she knows a lot about building a sled, she has much to learn about building a team. Includes information on the design process and a challenge.
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Language
English
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When deep-sea mining for gold and silver in the Pacific Ocean triggers a series of earthquakes, threatening a nearby island, Benji Franklin is called upon to use his amazing problem solving skills--and personal submarine--to stop the shaking and save the island's people from disaster.
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Series
Data Set volume 8
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
The DATA Set enters Dr. Bunsen's body in his newest invention, a vehicle that can shrink, to gather all the cold germs that are interfering with an important presentation he has scheduled.
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