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Frank Einstein volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In his Grandpa Al's garage workshop, child genius Frank Einstein tries to invent a robot that can learn on its own, and after an accident brings wisecracking Klink and overly expressive Klank to life, they set about helping Frank perfect his Antimatter Motor until his archnemesis, T. Edison, steals the robots for his doomsday plan.
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Frank Einstein volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
"Frank Einstein (kid-genius, scientist, and inventor) and his best friend Watson, along with Klink (a self-assembled artificial-intelligence entity), and Klank (a mostly self-assembled and artificial almost intelligence entity), once again find themselves in competition with T. Edison, their classmate and archrival--this time in the quest to unlock the power behind the science of the human body"--Provided by publisher.
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Frank Einstein volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
"Frank Einstein (kid-genius scientist and inventor) and his best friend, Watson, along with intelligent robots Klink and Klank once again find themselves in competition with T. Edison, their classmate and archrival--this time in the quest to unlock the power behind the science of energy"--Provided by publisher.
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English
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An out-of-this-world new middle-grade graphic novel about a genius scientist and her evil nemesisâfrom New York Times bestselling author Laini Taylor and cartoonist Jim Di Bartolo
Donât you hate it when your archenemy launches your latest invention into space, accidentally creating a robot army that falls into the clutches of an evil alien emperor? Well, thatâs how Billie Blasterâs day is going!
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Donât you hate it when your archenemy launches your latest invention into space, accidentally creating a robot army that falls into the clutches of an evil alien emperor? Well, thatâs how Billie Blasterâs day is going!
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The wheel was invented some 5,000 years ago, and the modern suitcase in the mid-nineteenth century, but it wasn't until the 1970s that someone successfully married the two. What was the hold up? For writer and journalist Katrine Marçal, the answer is both shocking and simple: because "real men" carried their bags, no matter how heavy. There were rolling suitcases before the '70s, but they were marketed as a niche product for (the presumably few)...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
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"Instead of playing at the park, Mary spends all of her time tinkering in her lab. But one day, she realizes how lonely she is. Mary decides to use her science skills to make a pet sheep for herself. All the kids at her school are amazed by her creation! When she tries to duplicate her experiment for her classmates, though, things go hilariously awry. Can Mary invent a way to fix this mess?"--Back cover.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 480L
Language
English
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In the summer of 1851, with encouragement and ideas provided by his family, an inventor builds a working submarine and takes his family for a ride. Includes notes about Lodner Phillips, the real inventor on whom the story is based.
13) Clockwork lives
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English
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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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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A biography of the half-Dutch/half-black Surinamese man who, despite the hardships and prejudice he found in his new Massachusetts home, invented a shoe-lasting machine that revolutionized the shoe industry in the late nineteenth century.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 930L
Language
English
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Cleverly shows how Leonardo's ideas foreshadowed modern inventions. At once an artist, inventor, engineer, and scientist, Leonardo da Vinci wrote and drew detailed descriptions of what would later become hang gliders, automobiles, robots, and much more.
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English
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"The writer of the New York Times Magazine's popular "Who Made That?" column explains how better ideas enter the world, revealing the fabled "aha" moment to be the result of a series of steps anyone can apply to solve the problems we encounter in everyday life,"--NoveList.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.6 - AR Pts: 38
Language
English
Description
Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble. In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson shows how the most fascinating of America's founders helped national character. In a sweeping narrative that follows Franklin's life from Boston to Philadelphia, to London and Paris and back, Isaacson chronicles the adventures of the spunky runaway apprentice who became,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1070L
Language
English
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"Ben Franklin loved to swim and, at the age of eleven, he was determined to swim like a fish--fins and all. This ... account of young Ben's earliest invention follows the budding scientist's journey as he tests and retests his swim fins. That first big splash led Ben to even more innovations and inventions. Includes Franklin quotes, a timeline, bibliography, and source notes"--Amazon.com.
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