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Author
Publisher
Lerner Publications Company
Pub. Date
c2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes sports and entertainment inventions, including the tennis ball, baseball glove, roller coaster, electric guitar, and skateboard.
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The United States is in the grip of a crisis of bad history. Inaccurate interpretations and outright misrepresentations of the past-cultivated within and promoted by the conservative movement and right-wing media over the last several decades-hold sway among large numbers of Americans, damaging our public discourse. In Myth America, historians Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer have assembled an all-star team of historians to provide textured analysis...
3) The computer
Author
Series
Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the invention of the computer, including the key players, setbacks along the way, and moments of discovery. Includes timeline.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
What do record players, batteries, and movie cameras have in common?
All these devices were created by the man known as The Wizard of Menlo Park: Thomas Edison.
Edison is most famous for inventing the incandescent lightbulb, but at his landmark laboratories in Menlo Park & West Orange, New Jersey, he also developed many other staples of modern technology. Despite many failures, Edison persevered. And good for that, because it would be very difficult...
Author
Publisher
Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
After a mysterious meteor shower makes him invulnerable but with no other powers to complement it, Quinton West realizes, with the help of his new superhero mentor, that he can use his quirky hobby of creating Rube Goldberg devices to outsmart the opposition.
Author
Series
The Questioneers volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Rosie is unable to invent a contraption to help one of Aunt Rosie's Raucous Riveters friends, she calls on classmates Iggy Peck and Ada Twist to help.
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
c2019
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Oona is the last duck to the pond every morning, but when her frog friend Roy reminds her how gifted she is with gadgets, Oona gets busy inventing crafty ways to get there first.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Award-winning poet and critic Kevin Young traces the history of the hoax as a peculiarly American phenomenon--the legacy of P.T. Barnum's 'humbug' culminating with the currency of Donald J. Trump's 'fake news'. Disturbingly, Young finds that fakery is woven from stereotype and suspicion, with race being the most insidious American hoax of all. He chronicles how Barnum came to fame by displaying figures like Joice Heth, a black woman whom he pretended...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
George and Harold and their doubles, Yesterday George and Yesterday Harold, have been taking turns going to school, but when the doubles fall prey to their gym teacher, Mr. Meaner, and his method of mind control that turns students into attentive, obedient, perfect children, it is up to original George and Harold to strike back.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A little girl has a wonderful idea. With the help of her canine assistant, she is going to make the most magnificent thing! She knows just how it will look. She knows just how it will work. But making the most magnificent thing turns out to be harder than she thinks.
20) Jabari tries
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Jabari is making a flying machine. It will fly across the yard. 'It'll be easy--I don't need any help,' Jabari declares. But he quickly realizes that inventing can be more than a little frustrating"