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1) Get Smart
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Agent 86 is the bungling secret agent Maxwell Smart. He works for CONTROL. They are on a mission to battle the forces of their evil crime nemesis known as KAOS. Smart has along side him the competent and beautiful Agent 99. The headquarters of the U.S. spy agency CONTROL is attacked and the identities of its agents are compromised. The Chief has no choice but to promote his analyst Maxwell Smart, who has dreamed of working in the field with superstar...
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Series
Nick and Tesla volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After foiling a gang of kidnappers and fending off an army of robots, 11-year-old siblings Nick and Tesla Holt could use a little rest! But as their third mystery opens, they discover there's a spy in their midst, searching for secrets in the home of their beloved (and slightly crazy) Uncle Newt. Is it the new laboratory assistant? The exterminator? The housekeepers? Or someone completely unexpected? To expose the mystery agent, Nick and Tesla must...
Language
English
Description
A futuristic family whose everyday world is cluttered with gadgets that anticipated such technological marvels as the Internet and the cellular phone. George is a corporate sprocket at the mercy of his tyrannical boss ; teenage daughter Judy is boy crazy; Elroy's a boy genius; and Jane's a pretty, sensible woman capable of intervening when George gets stuck on the treadmill.
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Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
"Discover unexpected ways to turn common materials into crafty contraptions that range from surprisingly simple to curiously complex. In vivid color photos, you'll be guided to create slingshot rockets, unique catapults, and even hydraulic-powered machines. Whether you build one or all 19 of these designs, you'll feel like an ingenious engineer when you're through." --
Author
Series
Nick and Tesla volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In order to figure out why robotic versions of history's greatest scientists and inventors keep going haywire, siblings Nick and Tesla create a gadget glove.
Author
Series
Nick and Tesla volume 2
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
After a series of robberies strike Half Moon Bay, sibling sleuths Nick and Tesla build robots out of household objects in order to catch the culprits.
Author
Series
Nick and Tesla volume 1
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
After moving in with their eccentric uncle, Nick and Tesla encounter strange occurrences in their new neighborhood and build gadgets using simple household objects to help them solve the mysteries.
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Language
English
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Unleash Your Inner Mechanical Mastermind
Welcome to the wondrous world of Thomas Willeford, aka Lord Archibald "Feathers" Featherstone, in which he shares his closely guarded secrets of Steampunkery. Filled with do-it-yourself projects, Steampunk Gear, Gadgets, and Gizmos: A Maker's Guide to Creating Modern Artifacts shows you how to build exquisite, ingenious contraptions on a budget.
Learn from Lord Featherstone as he distills his
...10) Launchers, lobbers, and rockets engineer: make 20 awesome ballistic blasters with ordinary stuff
Author
Language
English
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Description
After the huge successes of Rubber Band Engineer and Duct Tape Engineer, we finally take away the boundaries of a single category and let author Lance Akiyama create twenty devious weapons of backyard warfare. Each of these launchers are made from PVC, soda bottles, rubber bands, hairspray cans, and anything you might find in the junk drawer, and are capable of firing marshmallows, poker chips, tennis balls, sponges, and plenty more. This book is...
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English
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"Why just reuse a bucket when you can reinvent it? The New 5-Gallon Bucket Book updates a quirky classic with 30+ new ways to take those old buckets and put them to use. Five-gallon buckets are ubiquitous and cheap (or even free). They are right up there with some of man's best inventions, like the wheel and sliced bread. Sure, they can be useful on their own, holding stuff or transporting stuff from place to place. But that's no fun. Put them to...
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Strap in alongside George, Jane, Judy, Elroy, Astro, and Rosie and go soaring into their fantastic world of rocket cars, rocking robots, and cranky computers. The once and future fan favorite family stands ready to show us that wherever or whenever you live, people, love, and laughs are still the same.
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