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2) Fries alive!
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Language
English
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While competing with a rival restaurant for the winning float in the Founder's Day parade, nine-year-old Freddy Funkhouser constructs a batch of animated French fries in his secret laboratory that come to life after receiving an enormous jolt of electricity.
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Publication 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,...
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Publication Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (31 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Buzz Beaker and his father explore a cave using a new invention Buzz created that allows them to see in the dark. While they are exploring, they encounter a strange creature that no one has seen before.
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English
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"Fenna Vos has learned to focus on her own survival-even now, with the Second World War raging in faraway countries. She works on-stage as the assistant to an unruly escape artist-behind the curtain as the mastermind of their act. After all, her honed ability to control her surroundings and elude entrapments, physical or otherwise, reliably suppresses the trauma and tragedy of her youth. For all her calculations, however, Fenna neglects to foresee...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Sensation
Publication Date
2012
Physical Desc
311 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lady Alexandra Morley, an alluring widow, is desperate to devise a plan to reverse her fortunes. When fate lands her in the arms of Phineas "Finn" Burke, a brilliant inventor with a shocking past, she despairs of ever getting what she needs--until they kiss.
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Publication Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (31 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
When Buzz Beaker invents a special paint that makes his skis go very fast, he decides to enter a race against the fastest skier around who has never lost a race.
13) Fiddlehead: #5
Author
Publisher
Tor
Publication Date
2013
Physical Desc
366 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Young ex-slave Gideon Bardsley is a brilliant inventor, but the job is less glamorous than one might think, especially since the assassination attempts started. Worse yet, they're trying to destroy his greatest achievement: a calculating engine called Fiddlehead, which provides undeniable proof of something awful enough to destroy the world. Both man and machine are at risk from forces conspiring to keep the Civil War going and the money flowing....
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Publication Date
2010
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p. cm.
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.
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Publication Date
2015.
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pages cm.
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English
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"Fifth grader Sammy Hayes-Rodriguez has to find a solution when his robot 'brother' has repeated malfunctions at school and a newer model robot steps in as competition--and his mother's job is in jeopardy as a result"-- Provided by publisher.
17) Money troubles
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Publication Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (158 pages) : illustrations.
Language
English
Description
This compilation of two separately published works tells of two of Benji Franklin's missions--solving an earthquake problem in the Pacific Ocean, and a massive cyber theft using satellites.
18) The oyster thief
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Publisher
Pegasus Books
Publication Date
2018.
Physical Desc
361 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Coralline is a mermaid who is engaged to the merman of her dreams. But when an oil spill wreaks havoc on her idyllic village life, her little brother falls gravely ill. Desperate to save him, she embarks on a quest to find a legendary elixir made of starlight. Izar, a human man, is on the cusp of an invention that will enable him to mine the depths of the ocean. His discovery will soon make him the richest man on earth--while threatening merpeople...
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Publication Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (82 pages) : illustrations.
Language
English
Description
When satellites from outer space commit cyber crime and millions of dollars are missing, kid-zillionaire Benji Franklin must ace his schoolwork and save Earth from digital thieves at the same time.
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Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Publication Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
420 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Highly sought for her premiere governesses, witty and elusive Eugenia Snowe clashes with brilliant inventor Ward Reeve, who resorts to everything including kidnapping to claim her heart.








