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1) Mechanica
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A retelling of Cinderella about an indomitable inventor-mechanic who finds her prince but realizes she doesn't want a fairy tale happy ending after all"--
2) Scan
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Tate Archer outruns armed government officials as he tries to keep his now dead father's strange invention out of the wrong hands, alien hands"--
3) Slob
Author
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Picked on, overweight genius Owen tries to invent a television that can see the past to find out what happened the day his parents were killed.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1852, when seventeen-year-old Katharine is sent to her family's estate to prove that her uncle is insane, she finds he is an inventor whose work creating ingenious clockwork figures supports hundreds of families, but strange occurences soon have her doubting her own sanity.
5) Skybreaker
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Matt Cruse, a student at the Airship Academy, and Kate de Vries, a young heiress, team up with a gypsy and a daring captain, to find a long-lost airship, rumored to carry a treasure beyond imagination.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Since eighth-grader Gabriel Ashe moved into his grandmother's house he has been spending a lot of time playing in the woods with his new friend Seth, but the games Seth invents involve a child-eating monster called the Hunter, and Gabriel is not sure how much is imagination and how much real.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Five Nights at Freddy's fans won't want to miss this pulse-pounding collection of three novella-length tales that will keep even the bravest FNAF player up at night. Consumed by failure... Desperate to keep his kiddie pizzeria from bankruptcy, Jack lets his animatronics tech pitch him a new invention that might just give him some perspective. Frustrated by an unfair arcade game, Colton throws himself into re-engineering the device at any cost. Marley's...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Robert Capa and Gerda Taro were young Jewish refugees, idealistic and in love. As photographers in the 1930s, they set off to capture their generation's most important struggle--the fight against fascism. Among the first to depict modern warfare, Capa, Taro, and their friend Chim took powerful photographs of the Spanish Civil War that went straight from the action to news magazines. They brought a human face to war with their iconic shots of a loving...
10) Titans
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Astrid Sullivan belongs to a family of compulsive gamblers, and now that her father has been laid off from his job in Detroit and lost all their money betting on the Titans, which are half-horse, half car, and race around impossible tracks, her family is falling apart--but when Astrid's new friends give her the chance to participate in this year's Titan races, she thinks she sees a way to win some money and keep her family together....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the early twentieth century, four sisters and their widowed mother, a famed spiritualist, travel from New York to London, and as the Titanic conveys them and their acquaintances, journalist W.T. Stead, scientist Nikola Tesla, and industrialist John Jacob Astor, home, Tesla's inventions will either doom or save them all.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Robotics, the Internet, and computers are some of the most signifcant technology breakthroughs of the last hundred years. This book identifies the pioneers of technology and how their innovations have revolutionized our world. Readers will enjoy reading the stories behind each historic invention as well as the mini bios of the technology "STEM-gineers" who made them. Experiments and research challenges help reinforce concepts"--
13) Tanks
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the Mark I to the powerful turreted tanks of World War Two and the modern missile-firing, troop-carrying light tanks of today's armies, twelve dioramic scenes reveal how the invention of the tank during World War One changed the face of warfare forever."--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Racial Justice in America : AAPI Excellence and Achievement series celebrates Asian achievement and culture, while exploring racism in a comprehensive, honest, and age-appropriate way. In the AAPI in STEM book, students learn about some of the inventions and discoveries Asian men and women have made in the world of science, technology, engineering, and math. Series is written by Virginia Loh-Hagan, a prolific author, advocate, and director of...
17) Warfare
Publisher
World Book
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"An exploration of the transformative impact of inventions and discoveries in warfare. Features include fact boxes, sidebars, biographies, timeline, glossary, list of recommended reading and Web sites, and index"--Provided by publisher.
19) Burn
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Tate learns quickly that the H2 are the least of his problems when a new alien race begins to threaten the planet"--
20) Fake boyfriend
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When Lane and Vivi's best friend Isabelle has her heart broken by her unreliable boyfriend, they decide to save her by inventing a new boy on the internet to ask Isabelle to the prom, but the scheme quickly becomes complicated, and the results surprise them all.