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Pub. Date
2009
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.
3) Muse
Author
Series
Muse duology volume 1
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A first entry in a planned duology is set in an alternate-history 1893 America, where a brewing war and the World's Fair in St. Cloud complicate a supernaturally gifted young woman's escape from her domineering father.
4) Airman
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the late nineteenth century, when Conor Broekhart discovers a conspiracy to overthrow the king, he is branded a traitor, imprisoned, and forced to mine for diamonds under brutal conditions while he plans a daring escape from Little Saltee prison by way of a flying machine that he must design, build, and, hardest of all, trust to carry him to safety.
Author
Language
English
Description
When a terrible drought struck William Kamkwamba's tiny village in Malawi, his family lost all of the season's crops, leaving them with nothing to eat and nothing to sell. William began to explore science books in his village library, looking for a solution. There, he came up with the idea that would change his family's life forever: he could build a windmill. Made out of scrap metal and old bicycle parts, William's windmill brought electricity to...
Author
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
In the early twentieth century, five 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. Tesla's inventions will either doom or save them all. Intermediate. Fiction.
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