Search Results: Returned 15 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 15
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-- Twenty thousand baseball cards under the seac1991., 2.7; Ages 4-8, Random House Call No: E BUL Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Step into reading.Summary Note: Roger's friend Kenneth uses an unusual sea vehicle of his own design to take them to an underwater cave, where a cache of old loot gathered by the mermaids turns out to contain a lot of very valuable old baseball cards.
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1998, c1995., 5-8, Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: J TECH 609.2 273 Edition: Sunburst ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Reveals some of the amazing inventions of the past and present that have come from young Americans, ages eight to nineteen.
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[2010]., Children, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Call No: DVD VID Edition: Second-disc super-sized edition. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Flint Lockwood is a young inventor who dreams of creating something that will improve everyone's life. Sam Sparks is a weathergirl covering the town's weather phenomenon, but chooses to hide her intelligence behind a perky exterior. Tim Lockwood is Flint's technophobic father. Brent is the town bully who has plagued Flint since childhood. Mayor Shelbourne exploits Flint's newest invention so he can put the town, and more importantly himself, on the map. By-the-rules town cop Earl Devereaux has a rule-breaking son, Cal. In a town where food drops from the sky like rain, Flint hopes to create something that will change everyone's life. However, when the weather takes a turn for the worse, the residents of the town of Chewandswallow will find their eating habits have drastically changed.
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-- Time machine[2014], Age 8-12, Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint Call No: GN WEL Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Graphic revolveSummary Note: In this graphic retelling, a man invents a time machine and travels far into the future where he discovers the childlike Eloi and the Morlocks, who live underground.
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-- Hedy Lamarr's double life: Hollywood legend and brilliant inventor[2019]., Ages 5-9, Sterling Children's Books Call No: J BIO 791.4302 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Hedy Lamarr became a movie legend, but her true loves were always science and engineering. During World War II, Hedy collaborated with another inventor on an innovative technology called frequency hopping. It was designed to prevent the enemy from jamming torpedo radio signals and commanding weapons to go off course. Frequency hopping is still used today to keep our cell phone messages private and defend our computers from hackers. In this biography, meet the real Hedy Lamarr : not only a beloved film star, but a visionary scientist who helped create the world we live in today.
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c1982., Ages 4-8, Rand McNally Call No: PB SAM Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Venerable inventor Professor Alexander Woodmouse acquires a new apprentice who proves to be very inventive indeed.
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[2010]., Adults, Anchor Bay Entertainment Call No: BLU RAY Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Clyde Shelton is a brilliant planner and inventor. One night two robbers invade his Philadelphia home and brutally kill his wife and daughter, almost killing him. When the killers are caught, Assistant DA Nick Rice is assigned the case. Nick makes a deal with one of the killers to testify against his partner for a 10 year plea bargain prison sentence. Clyde doesn't want Nick to make the deal, but Nick says the deal is done. The other killer gets the death penalty. After 10 years, the other killer is released from prison, and he soon ends up dead. Clyde is arrested and vaguely admits to Nick that he did it. Clyde is put in jail, and he warns Nick that he must fix the broken justice system that failed him and his family or else anyone connected to his case will soon die. Even from jail, Clyde's threats become a reality, and Nick must stop Clyde before his family is next.
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-- To the future, Ben Franklin![2019], Ages 6 to 9, Random House Call No: G OSB Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Magic Tree House Volume: #32.Summary Note: "Jack and Annie are whisked back in time by the magic tree house to meet Benjamin Franklin in Old Philadelphia"--
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1952., 5-8, Random House Call No: J BIO 621.385 092 Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Landmark books Volume: 30Summary Note: An account of the early struggling years of Alexander Graham Bell, when people laughed at the telephone he invented, calling it an "electric toy."
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p2009., 8-12, Scholastic Audiobooks Call No: J AUD TRU Edition: Unabridged. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Secrets of a lab rat Volume: #1Summary Note: Fearless nine-year-old "Scab" McNally tries to get his twin sister Isabelle's help in convincing their parents to let them get a dog, but when he embarrasses her in school with a particularly obnoxious invention, a sister repellent spray also known as "Isabelle's Smell", it looks like he has lost her cooperation forever.
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[2020]., Ages 5+; K to grade 3, Sterling Children's Books Call No: J BIO 617.7092 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Born in 1940s Harlem, Patricia Bath dreamed of being a doctor--even though that wasn't a career option for most women. This biography follows Dr. Bath in her quest to become an ophthalmologist and restore sight to the blind. "Choosing miracles" when everyone else had given up hope, she invented a specialized laser for removing cataracts, becoming the first African American woman doctor to receive a medical patent"--
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c1990., 2.4; Ages 4-8, Holiday House Call No: J BIO 973.3 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Picture book biographySummary Note: Surveys the life of Benjamin Franklin, highlighting his work as an inventor and statesman.
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2015., Ages 8-12, Little, Brown and Company Call No: Y PAT Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: House of robots Volume: 2Summary Note: "Fifth grader Sammy Hayes-Rodriguez has to find a solution when his robot 'brother' has repeated malfunctions at school and a newer model robot steps in as competition--and his mother's job is in jeopardy as a result"--
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c1985., 5-8, Childrens Press Call No: J BIO 621.3 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: People of distinction biographiesSummary Note: A biography of the ingenious American whose inventions include the electric light bulb, the phonograph, and other useful items.
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2019., Adults, Berkley Call No: FIC QUI Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Burning Cove Volume: #3.Summary Note: "An unconventional woman and a man shrouded in mystery walk a tightrope of desire as they race against a killer to find a machine that could change the world"--
