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The mysterious Griffin arrives at a picturesque English inn during a snowstorm, swaddled in bandages which cover his face and with his eyes hidden behind dark glasses. His odd get-up and irascible behavior intrigue the locals, who believe him to be the victim of an accident. However, the true reason for Griffin's outfit is far stranger: underneath those clothes, he is completely invisible. As the cause of Griffin's state of transparency is revealed,...
3) The similars
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"When six clones join Emmaline's prestigious boarding school, she must confront the heartbreak of seeing her dead best friend's face each day in class"--
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Franny K. Stein mad scientist volume 4
Pub. Date
2005
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English
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When her embarrassing middle name is revealed at school, mad scientist Franny K. Stein experiments with time in order to return to the past and give herself a more dignified name.
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English
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A hyper-curious young girl tries a series of wacky experiments, such as seeing if a piece of bologna will fly like a frisbee and determining whether seedlings will grow if watered with expensive perfume, and then must suffer the consequences of experiments gone awry.
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Zoey and Sassafras volume 3
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Innovation Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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Making a terrible discovery at the stream about a mysterious threat that is endangering its magical creatures, Zoey and Sassafras race against time to discover the source of the problem and save the Merhorse species.
8) Origin
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Razorbill
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Pia has grown up in a secret laboratory hidden deep in the Amazon rain forest. She was raised by a team of scientists who have created her to be the start of a new immortal race. But on the night of her seventeenth birthday, Pia discovers a hole in the electric fence that surrounds her sterile home--and sneaks outside the compound for the first time in her life. Free in the jungle, Pia meets Eio, a boy from a nearby village. Together, they embark...
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Harper Children's Audio
Pub. Date
2006
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English
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Stone Fox: Little Willie hopes to pay the back taxes on his grandfather's farm with the purse from a dog sled race he enters.
Top secret: Despite the disapproval of his parents and his formidable science teacher, nine-year-old Allen determines to do his science project on human photosynthesis.
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Max Einstein volume 1
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English
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Max Einstein and a group of international geniuses use their creativity and curiosity to help solve some of the world's toughest problems with science.
12) The Pox party
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Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War.
13) June 29, 1999
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Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c1992
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English
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While her third-grade classmates are sprouting seeds in paper cups, Becky has a more ambitious, innovative science project in mind.
15) The Frandidate
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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Determined to be elected class president, mad scientist Frannie K. Stein uses her Atomic Combiner to create a suit that makes her seem to be whatever a voter wants her to be, but the suit has plans of its own.
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HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c1993
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English
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Twelve-year-old Maggie receives European fire bugs for her birthday, but when they fail to metamorphose and grow grossly large and explode instead, she uses scientific reasoning to determine the cause of their strange death.
17) Experiment #256
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Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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In his science journal, Ian records that his experiments with a jet pack for his dog, Wilbur, lead to chaos and a lot of unhappy people.
19) Watchers
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English
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Two creatures, the end result of experiments in genetic engineering and enhanced intelligence, escape from a government laboratory and bring either death and destruction or a touching new kind of love to those they encounter.
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Scaredy cats volume 4
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Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1996
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English
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When Mrs. O'Dell's science experiment with shrinking plants goes awry, her third-grade students find they have become miniature people in a world of giants.