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Awesome Dawson
by Chris Gall
All his life, Dawson has been inventing things, repairing toys in unusual ways and helping clean up his neighborhood by reusing discarded objects, but when his Vacu-Maniac malfunctions, it is his friend Mooey whose brainpower saves the day.
Call Number: E GALL, CHRIS
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Monkey with a tool belt
by Chris Monroe
Clever monkey Chico Bon Bon builds lots of things with his many tools, and when he is captured by an organ grinder, he uses them to help him escape and get back home.
Call Number: E MONROE, CHRIS
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The most magnificent thing
by Ashley Spires
A little girl and her canine assistant set out to make the most magnificent thing, however despite their hard work, the end result is not what the girl had envisioned, but a long walk soon clears her mind and yields a fresh perspective about what needs to be done to succeed.
Call Number: E SPIRES, ASHLEY
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Rosie Revere, Engineer
by Andrea Beaty
Hiding her prowess as a talented inventor by day, at night Rosie resolves to complete her great-great-aunt Rose's (aka Rosie the Riveter) unfinished flying contraption and is temporarily discouraged when the invention hovers instead of flies, a seeming failure that Aunt Rose encourages her to recognize as an amazing success.
Call Number: E BEATY, ANDREA
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What do you do with an idea?
by Kobi Yamada
A boy has an idea which makes him uncomfortable at first but he discovers it is magical and that, no matter what other people say, he should give it his attention.
Call Number: E YAMADA, KOBI
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The fourteenth goldfish
by Jennifer L Holm
Hating change and missing both her best friend and her dead goldfish, 11-year-old Ellie encounters a boy who strongly resembles her immortality-obsessed grandfather, in a story that introduces the work of famous historical scientists. By the three-time Newbery Honor-winning author of Turtle in Paradise.
Call Number: JF HOLM, JENNIFER L.
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Frank Einstein and the EvoBlaster belt
by Jon Scieszka
Frank Einstein #4
More clever science experiments, funny jokes and robot hijinks await readers in book four of the New York Times best-selling Frank Einstein chapter book series about the kid-genius and inventor.
Call Number: JF SCIESZKA, JON
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Robot revolution
by James Patterson
House of Robots #3
When his underappreciated mechanical helpers cause chaos by going on strike while his mother is distracted by a top-secret project, Sammy and his disabled sister, Maddie, struggle to keep the peace until the truth about the project can be revealed.
Call Number: JF PATTERSON, JAMES
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Vincent Shadow, toy inventor
by Tim Kehoe
Eleven-year-old Vincent Shadow, inspired by the ideas of the inventor Nikola Tesla, has always kept his many unusual toy inventions secret from his family until he enters a contest whose prize is to spend a summer working with the eccentric Howard G. Whizz of Whizzer Toys.
Call Number: JF KEHOE, TIM
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What a great idea! : inventions that changed the world
by Steve Tomecek
Spanning history from 3500 B.C. to the modern day, this book offers a look at the important inventions that have greatly impacted human history, complete with profiles of each invention, when they were made, how they were used, and who created them.
Call Number: J609 TOM
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Genius : the game
by Leopoldo Gout
The producer behind Days of Grace presents the story of three international teen geniuses, including a Mexican-American hacker, a Nigerian engineer and a Chinese activist, who must win a game with life-or-death stakes that has been devised by India's youngest CEO.
Call Number: TEEN GOUT, LEOPOLDO
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Mechanica
by Betsy Cornwell
An empowering adaptation of the Cinderella story features a young genius inventor whose stepfamily forces her into a life of servitude before she aspires to win a technological exposition.
Call Number: TEEN CORNWELL, BETSY
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