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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"New York Times bestselling author TJ Klune invites you deep into the heart of a peculiar forest and on the extraordinary journey of a family assembled from spare parts. In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robots--fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention. Victor Lawson, a human, lives there too. They're a family,...
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Language
English
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Description
Hedy Kiesler is lucky. Her beauty leads to a starring role in a controversial film and marriage to a powerful Austrian arms dealer, allowing her to evade Nazi persecution despite her Jewish heritage. But Hedy is also intelligent. At lavish Vienna dinner parties, she overhears the Third Reich's plans. One night in 1937, desperate to escape her controlling husband and the rise of the Nazis, she disguises herself and flees her husband's castle. She lands...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The only legitimate child of Lord Byron, the most brilliant, revered, and scandalous of the Romantic poets, Ada was destined for fame long before her birth. Estranged from Ada's father, who was infamously "mad, bad, and dangerous to know," Ada's mathematician mother is determined to save her only child from her perilous Byron heritage. Banishing fairy tales and make-believe from the nursery, Ada's mother provides her daughter with a rigorous education...
7) The fall guy
Author
Series
Publisher
Raven Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When handyman Cedric O'Toole is set up to take the fall for a murder he didn't commit, he will need all his inventive powers to save himself.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Childrens Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In 1867 Texas, Jett, a girl passing as a boy while seeking her long-lost twin brother, joins forces with Honoraria Gibbons, an inventor, and White Fox, a young Army scout, to investigate a zombie army that is terrorizing the West.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gambling everything, including the family farm, Cullen McNamara travels to the 1893 Chicago World's Fair with his most recent invention. But the noise in the fair's Machinery Hall makes it impossible to communicate with potential buyers. In an act of desperation, he hires Della Wentworth, a teacher of the deaf, to tutor him in the art of lip-reading. The young teacher is reluctant to participate, and Cullen has trouble keeping his mind on his lessons...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Hector McGregor, inventor of peppermint pencils, glow-in-the-dark books, and other unusual items, leaves his home workshop to work in a laboratory but finds that his inspiration comes from being around his cheery wife, five children, and a hen called Hattie.
Author
Series
Herbert's wormhole volume 1
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When almost-sixth-grader Alex, a video game fanatic, is forced on a "playdate" with his neighbor Herbert, an inventor, the two travel to the twenty-second century and face off against aliens, who are not as beneficent as most people think.
13) The ways we hide
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
As a little girl raised amid the hardships of Michigan's Copper Country, Fenna Vos learned to focus on her own survival. That ability sustains her even now as the Second World War rages in faraway countries. Though she performs onstage as the assistant to an unruly escape artist, behind the curtain she's the mastermind of their act. Ultimately, controlling her surroundings and eluding traps of every kind helps her keep a lingering trauma at bay. Yet...
Author
Publisher
Regnery Publishng
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In "What's the Big Idea, Charlie Brown?," the Peanuts gang learn about America's great inventors, including a few who don't often make it into the history books. Join Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and pals for this new adventure that the whole family will enjoy!
Author
Series
Doctor Proctor's fart powder volume 3
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
New adventures await Doctor Proctor, Lisa, and Nilly as they try to protect Oslo, Norway, from invading aliens, enormous snakes in the sewers, seven-legged Peruvian sucking spiders, and sinister waffle irons.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Julian Calendar thought changing schools would mean leaving his "nerdy" persona behind, but instead he forms an alliance with fellow inventors Greta and Ben and works with them to prevent an adult from using one of their gadgets for nefarious purposes.
17) Clockwork lives
Author
Series
Clockwork angels volume 2
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Marinda Peake is a woman with a quiet, perfect life in a small village; she long ago gave up on her dreams and ambitions to take care of her ailing father, an alchemist and an inventor. When he dies, he gives Marinda a mysterious inheritance: a blank book that she must fill with other people's stories -- and ultimately her own.
Author
Series
Doctor Proctor's fart powder volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A mysterious postcard leads Lisa and Nilly from Oslo to Paris in search of Doctor Proctor but, once there, all they find of their missing friend is a time-traveling bathtub powered by a special soap and several sinister individuals determined to do all they can to locate the eccentric inventor.
Author
Series
Laurens Stephanie volume 1
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A respected and driven entrepreneur, Lord Randolph Cavanaugh is loyal and devoted to his family, but yearns for more in life. When he travels to Buckinghamshire to review a recent investment, he discovers the determined and intelligent Felicia Throgmorton struggling to keep her late father's estate together-- and to do that she needs to persuade their latest investor that her father's follies are a risk worth taking. Rand and Felicia are forced to...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"When their sister is plucked from the shores of the Bloodsmoor River by an eerie black-silk hot air balloon that sails in through a clear blue sky, the lives of the already extraordinary Zinn sisters are radically altered. The monstrous tragedy splinters the family, who must not only grapple with the mysterious and shameful loss of their sister and daughter but also seek their way forward in the dawn of a new era -- one that includes time machines,...
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