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1) Mechanica
Author
Series
Publisher
Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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"--
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A little girl and her canine assistant set out to make the most magnificent thing. But after much hard work, the end result is not what the girl had in mind. Frustrated, she quits. Her assistant suggests a long walk, and as they walk, it slowly becomes clear what the girl needs to do to succeed. A charming story that will give kids the most magnificent thing: perspective!
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
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.
4) Stealing air
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Three sixth-grade boys band together to build an experimental aircraft, enduring social and practical difficulties in the process.
5) Unleashed
Author
Series
Swindle volume 7
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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
Mr. and Mrs. Green volume 4
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Mr. and Mrs. Green, a loving alligator couple, practice magic tricks, bake cookies, and dream up new inventions.
8) Jackpot
Author
Series
Swindle volume 6
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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
Publisher
Disney Editions
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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.
10) Secrets unlocked
Author
Series
Tales of Rapunzel volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Collects two stories in which Rapunzel must consult a wizard for an explanation on why her long blond hair has returned, and must determine what project she should enter into the royal invention convention.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
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.