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A little girl has a wonderful idea. With the help of her canine assistant, she is going to make the most magnificent thing! She gathers parts, and hammers and nails until finally she finishes just what she wanted, and the pair go for a ride on the scooter and attached cart she made out of junk.
2) Stealing air
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Three sixth-grade boys band together to build an experimental aircraft, enduring social and practical difficulties in the process.
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Rosie Revere is no stranger to flops and fails, kerfuffles and catastrophes. After all, engineering is all about perseverance! But this time, Rosie has a really important project to tackle - one that feels much bigger than herself. Rosie's beloved Aunt Rose and her friends, the Raucous Riveters - a group of fun-loving gals who built airplanes during World War II - need help inventing something new. And Rosie is just the engineer for the job! After...
9) Skybreaker
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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.
10) The recess bully
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The new student in Harry's second grade class is ruining recess by being a bully--can one of Harry's superhero inventions help him befriend the bully and save recess?
11) Unleashed
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Swindle mysteries volume 7
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"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."--Provided by OCLC.
12) Melia and Jo
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"Melia is SCIENTIFIC and loves to create things in her backyard laboratory, but something is missing. Her inventions just aren't quite right. Enter Jo, her new friend with an ARTISTIC spirit. When you blend the arts and science, something magical happens!"--Back cover.
14) Jackpot
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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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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.
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Adventures in extreme reading volume 3
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Their Uncle Dan is still missing and Carter and Isabelle are starting to worry, especially after they receive a threatening call from the computer hacker--and he challenges them to match wits with him in Treasure Island.
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Adventures in extreme reading volume 5
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Uncle Dan Hunter is taking his virtual reality program public, and thirteen-year old Carter and his cousin Isabelle are helping him demonstrate the suits at a children's bookstore--but when a blackout fuses Wind in the willows with Peter Pan, Carter has battle pirates and weasels to rescue the two children trapped in the suits.
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Adventures in extreme reading volume 1
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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.
19) A spark unseen
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When Katharine Tulman foils an attempt to kidnap her Uncle Tully, she finds herself caught up in international intrigue. Aware that there are people who want to turn her uncle's mechanical fish into an explosive device, and unsure of who to trust, she decides to fake her uncle's death and flee to Paris in search of Lane Moreau, her uncle's assistant.
20) Jabari tries
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Jabari is making a flying machine all by himself, but when it doesn't work the way he imagined, he learns about perserverance and problem-solving.