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1) Mechanica
Author
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) Skybreaker
Author
Series
Language
English
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
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
"Elliot Von Doppler and his friend Leslie think nothing ever happens in Bickleburgh, except inside the gleaming headquarters of DENKi-3000--the world's eighth-largest electronics factory. When Uncle Archie vanishes, it's up to Elliot, Leslie, and every one of the unusual 'employees' to create an invention so astonishing it will save the Creature Department"--
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old twins Katie and David Bowen evade foreign militants and make their way from Washington, D.C. to their uncle's Vermont home, hoping he can help rescue their parents, who were kidnapped because of their secret invention, Rover.
Author
Series
The DATA set volume 4
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Mrs. Bell challenges her science students to invent their own robots but when they start malfunctioning it becomes up to the DATA Set to deprogram the machines before an army of robots take over the school.
Author
Series
DATA Set volume 6
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The town of Newtonburg has been invaded by all sorts of creepy-crawlies from mosquitoes to bees to ants and more! What's worse is that they are all mysteriously swarming toward Dr. Bunsen's house when the kids get shrunk down to the size of insects"--
Author
Series
Crimson five volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the year 2071, eleven year-old inventor Kia works to earn a spot at PIPS, the Piedmont Inventors Prep School, and travels with four students to Camp Piedmont to solve a task against forty-nine other state teams to secure her place.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a two-day train trip to enter his invention in the National Science Competition in Washington, D.C., fourteen-year-old Steven "Steel" Trapp, possessor of a remarkable photographic memory, becomes embroiled in an international plot of kidnapping and bribery that may have links to terrorists.
14) Jackpot
Author
Series
Swindle volume 6
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Series
A Swindle mystery volume 7
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Luthor the Doberman, a former attack dog, has a good home with Savannah Drysdale, but every time a certain truck passes he goes into a frenzy, while Griffin Bing is caught up in trying to beat his rival, Darren Vader, at an invention contest.
Author
Series
Captain Underpants volume 12
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
George and Harold and their doubles, Yesterday George and Yesterday Harold, have been taking turns going to school, but when the doubles fall prey to their gym teacher, Mr. Meaner, and his method of mind control that turns students into attentive, obedient, perfect children, it is up to original George and Harold to strike back.
17) Bad circuits
Author
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Stephanie discovers the shocking invention that her cousin Daniel is entering in the local science competition.
19) Marveltown
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Marveltown's adults are outstanding inventors, but when their best engineers create giant but stupid robots that threaten the town, it is the children's outrageous creations that save the day.