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Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Mr. Cheeseman and his three "smart, polite, and relatively odor-free" children journey to the not-so-distant past, they meet something utterly surprising--the alternate versions of themselves.
3) Skybreaker
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
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.
4) Mechanica
Author
Series
Mechanica volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A retelling of Cinderella about an indomitable inventor-mechanic who finds her prince but realizes she doesn't want a fairy tale happy ending after all"--
Author
Series
Questioneers volume 2
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young aspiring engineer must first conquer her fear of failure.
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.
7) 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"--
8) Jackpot
Author
Series
Swindle mysteries volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
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.
9) Stealing Air
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
You can't just ask for the chance to fly . . .When his dad announced they were moving to Iowa, Brian looked forward to making some new friends. But on his first day there he makes an enemy instead — Frankie Heller, the meanest kid in town. Brian needs to hang out with someone cool to get back on track. . . .Alex has always been the coolest guy around, and good with money, just like his dad. But now the family is struggling, and he needs...
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.
11) 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
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Series
Rube Goldberg (Brandon T. Snider) volume 1
Language
English
Formats
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
Formats
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.
16) 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.
17) Pug blasts off
Author
Series
Diary of a pug volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Baron von Bubbles (Bub) is a pug who wants nothing more than to help his human Bella in her craft projects for school, though he is a little apprehensive about the rocket she is making for the Inventor Challenge--so when he ruins the rocket while trying to get at Nutz the squirrel he needs to find a way to make it up to Bella.
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
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
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.
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