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Melonhead
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Katy Kelly |
DANNY'S TALL AND skinny. Even though he's not built, his arms are long enough to give his pitch a power so fierce any college scout would sign him on the spot. A 95 mph fastball, but the boy's not ev… |
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The unusual mind of Vincent Shadow
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Tim Kehoe |
Twelve-year-old toy inventor Vincent Shadow faces two major obstacles, first when a sudden tragedy leaves the future of Whizzer Toys entirely in his hands, then when trouble-maker Timmy Zimmerman stu… |
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Inventors and their discoveries
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Richard Kozar |
Highlights twenty-five notable achievements in science, medicine, and industry and the individuals responsible, including Alexander Graham Bell, Madame Curie, and Samuel F. B. Morse. |
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Garrett Morgan, Inventor
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Garnet Jackson |
A brief biography of an African American inventor that describes, in rhyming text, how his lifelong interest in machines led to the invention of the traffic signal. |
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From telegraphs to light bulbs with Thomas Edison
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Deborah Hedstrom-Page |
Jimmie, who has an interest in inventions, meets Thomas Edison and works with him on the development of his light bulb and other marvelous creations. |
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Tempt Me at Twilight
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Lisa Kleypas |
Poppy Hathaway loves her unconventional family, though she longs for normalcy. Then fate leads to a meeting with Harry Rutledge, an enigmatic hotel owner and inventor with wealth, power, and a danger… |
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The guy who invented home video games
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Edwin Brit Wyckoff |
"Read about Ralph Baer and find out how he invented the first video games"--Provided by publisher. |
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Return to the Little Kingdom
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Michael Moritz |
In 1984, The Little Kingdom: The Private Story of Apple Computer told the story of Apple's first decade alongside the histories of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Now, com¬pletely revised and expanded,… |
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What color is my world?
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A. G. Ford,Kareem Abdul-Jabbar,Raymond Obstfeld,Ben Boos |
While twins Ella and Herbie help the handyman Mr. Midal work on their new home, he tells them about such inventors as Granville Woods, Dr. Henry T. Sampson, and James West, giving them a new view of … |
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Guglielmo Marconi
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Liz Sonneborn |
Describes the life and work of the Italian Nobel Prize winning inventor, who was a pioneer in the development of the radio. |
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The last notebook of Leonardo
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B. B. Wurge |
Ten-year-old Jeremy's father, a genius inventor, turns himself into a giant orangutan and takes his son on an epic journey to discover the secrets of Leonardo Da Vinci. |
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Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder
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Jo Nesbø |
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 waff… |
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Luces de Septiembre
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón |
"When fourteen-year-old Irene Sauvelle moves with her family to Cape House on the coast of Normandy, she's immediately taken by the beauty of the place--its expansive cliffs, coasts, and harbors. The… |
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Quest for flight
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Craig S. Harwood |
John J. Montgomery was an American inventor of basic flight technology and exponent of aeronautical theory in the pioneering period of aviation in America (1885-1905). He used wind tunnels, whirling … |
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Bunch of amateurs
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Jack Hitt |
Beginning with Ben Franklin's kite and leading all the way to the current TV hit "American Idol," Hitt argues that the nation's love of self-invented obsessives has always driven the country to redis… |
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Capturing the Light
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Roger Watson,Helen Rappaport |
An intimate look at the journeys of two men -- a gentleman scientist and a visionary artist -- as they struggled to capture the world around them, and in the process invented modern photography. Duri… |
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Thomas Edison
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Saddleback Educational Publishing Staff |
A brief biography of Thomas Edison, in graphic novel format, that discusses his childhood, family, education, marriages, and inventions. |
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House of Robots
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Chris Grabenstein,James Patterson,Juliana Neufeld |
Fifth-grader Sammy Hayes-Rodriguez struggles to fit in when his inventor mother requires him to take her latest creation, a robotic 'brother,' to school with him to learn to become a student. |
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Free Innovation
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Eric von Hippel |
In this book I integrate new theory and new research findings into the framework of a “free innovation paradigm.” Free innovation involves innovations developed and given away by consumers as a “free… |
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Ben the inventor
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Robin Stevenson |
Best friends and budding inventors Ben and Jack, dismayed that Jack's family is planning to move to another city, try to come up with an invention that will scare potential buyers away from Jack's ho… |
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