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2) Skybreaker
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Matt Cruse, a student at the Airship Academy, and Kate de Vries, a young heiress, team up with a gypsy and a daring captain, to find a long-lost airship, rumored to carry a treasure beyond imagination.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A twelve-year-old boy, worried that his parents may divorce, discovers that an island in the middle of the lake where he is spending the summer is the testing grounds of the mysterious Dr. Libris, who may have invented a way to make the characters in books come alive.
Author
Series
Questioneers volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young aspiring engineer must first conquer her fear of failure.
6) Sky jumpers
Author
Series
Sky jumpers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"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"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In 1852, when seventeen-year-old Katharine is sent to her family's estate to prove that her uncle is insane, she finds he is an inventor whose work creating ingenious clockwork figures supports hundreds of families, but strange occurences soon have her doubting her own sanity.
8) Jackpot
Author
Series
Swindle mysteries volume 6
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.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Ethan Cheeseman takes his children, ages eight, twelve, and fourteen, and Captain Jibby and crew, to the year 1668 to end an ancient family curse and save the children's mother, but damage to the time machine and the arrival of Mr. 5 complicate their return.
10) Slob
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Picked on, overweight genius Owen tries to invent a television that can see the past to find out what happened the day his parents were killed.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Ethan Cheeseman and his children, ages eight, twelve, and fourteen, hope to settle in a nice small town, at least long enough to complete work on a time machine, but spies and goverment agents have been pursuing them for two years and are about to catch up.
Author
Series
Rube Goldberg (Brandon T. Snider) volume 1
Language
English
Description
When on the first day of middle school Principal Kim announces a Contraption Convention, young inventor Rube Goldberg must conquer his anxieties and a ghostly mystery to come up with something brilliant for the judges and his friends.
Author
Series
My weird school volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As the new computer lab teacher tries to bring Ella Mentry School into the twenty-first century with her peculiar inventions, second-grader A.J. struggles to survive without sugary snacks when principal Klutz bans junk food.
14) A spark unseen
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
When Katharine Tulman foils an attempt to kidnap her Uncle Tully, she finds herself caught up in international intrigue. Aware that there are people who want to turn her uncle's mechanical fish into an explosive device, and unsure of who to trust, she decides to fake her uncle's death and flee to Paris in search of Lane Moreau, her uncle's assistant.
15) Sleepy time Olie
Author
Series
Publisher
Laura Geringer Books/HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Pappy bumps his head before bedtime, Olie cheers him up by inventing a super silly ray, and then they both become happy, sleepy robots.
Author
Series
Hooey Higgins volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Pr
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
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
Fizzopolis volume 1
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Harold Fuzzwonker works with his parents to protect the family's top-secret recipe for the world's greatest soda pop from the evil Snood candy factory, but his best fizzy friend Floyd makes keeping the secret hard when he escapes from Harold's backpack.
Author
Series
Rube Goldberg (Brandon T. Snider) volume 2
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Just as Rube and his two best friends, Boob and Pearl, are busy agonizing over the Switcheroo Dance and planning Pearl's campaign for class president, they discover that Beechwood was once a sundown town and Rube realizes that racism and bigotry still exist there.
Author
Series
Imagination box volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
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"--
20) On earth
Author
Series
Andrew lost volume 10
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While bouncing through Earth's prehistory in a malfunctioning time machine, Andrew, his cousin Judy, and Thudd the robot meet Dr. Kron-Tox's nephew, Beeper, and nearly lose the Time-a-Tron in a tsunami.
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