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English
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A twelve-year-old boy, worried that his parents may divorce, discovers that an island in the middle of the lake where he is spending the summer is the testing grounds of the mysterious Dr. Libris, who may have invented a way to make the characters in books come alive.
Author
Series
American chillers volume 30
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
While working in her uncle's vacuum cleaner repair shop, Brooke Whipkey and her friend Spider Murphy come up with a fabulous new invention - a robotic vacuum! Unfortunately their experiments lead to horrifying results that spill out of the repair shop and into the neighborhood. How can they reign in their "vicious vacuums" before these wayward inventions suck up everything and everybody in their paths?
Author
Series
George Greenby books volume 1
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Follows the adventures of a young boy and his neighbor friend as they travel through a computer portal into outer space, where they explore such mysteries as black holes and the origins of the universe, while trying to evade an evil scientist.
14) Edison's alley
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Series
Accelerati trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Nick and his friends race against their foes to retrieve more pieces of Tesla's free energy transmitter, only to see them fall into the hands of the Accelerati's shadowy leader"--
Nick has learned that the strange antiques in his attic bedroom were left there by the eccentric inventor Nikola Tesla, pieces of his Far Range Energy Emitter, capable of transmitting "free energy" to the globe. Members of the Accelerati, a menacing secret society of physicists,...
16) Tesla's attic
Author
Series
Accelerati trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"With a plot combining science and the supernatural, four kids are caught up in a dangerous plan concocted by the eccentric inventor, Nikola Tesla"--
17) Jackpot
Author
Series
Swindle mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Griffin Bing and his friends are trying to locate Mr. Fielder's missing thirty million dollar lottery ticket, and thwart the local bully, Darren Vader, who wants to find it for himself--and Mr. Bing's latest invention may help.
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at the invention of the cotton gin. Additional features include a table of contents, a Fast Facts spread, critical-thinking questions, primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, a phonetic glossary, an index, and sources for further research.
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Adventures in extreme reading volume 1
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Carter Lewis's Uncle Dan has invented a suit that creates a virtual reality world so that the person experiences and interacts with a book as if he were actually there--but when Carter and his cousin Isabelle put on the suits they discover that a hacker is playing games with them.
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Neglected by her father who spends all of his time building the ghost machine to bring her mother back from the dead, twelve-year-old Emmaline decides that the only way to bring her father back will be to make the ghost machine work, or destroy it forever.
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