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Billy Sure, kid entrepreneur and the cat-dog translator

When Billy invents a device to allow people to know what their dogs and cats are trying to say, he learns that pets' thoughts are better left unsaid.
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Billy Sure, kid entrepreneur and the stink spectacular

Discovering that he has been exchanging emails with a corporate spy from a rival company, seventh-grade innovator Billy Sure and his best friend set a trap to catch the culprit before he reveals Sure Things, Inc.'s valuable secrets.
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Prototyping your inventions

2018
Makers and inventors rely on prototypes to test out and refine their projects. Through simple text written to foster creativity and problem solving, students will the art of innovation.
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101 ways to bug your friends and enemies

2012
Steve "Sneeze" Wyatt takes half of his classes at the high school, where he attracts the attention of a bully on the varsity golf team, while at middle school all of his friends seem to be falling in love--including Sneeze, himself.

20 Makey Makey projects for the evil genius

2017
Features twenty low-cost projects, including a musical hoodie, a marble maze, a hackable lock box, and more.
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Calling all minds

Temple Grandin explores how to experiment and how to think about inventing for young readers.
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The junkyard wonders

Inspired by a teacher who believes each of them is a genius, a class of special-needs students invents something that could convince the whole school they are justifiably proud to be "Junkyard Wonders.".

100 inventions that made history

brilliant breakthroughs that shaped our world
Describes the development of one hundred world-changing inventions, including rockets, the internet, refrigerators, blue jeans, light bulbs, and antibiotics.

Zack and the turkey attack!

While helping on his grandparents' farm, Zach, his best friend Matthew, and neighbor Josie outsmart a tormenting turkey and, in the process, solve a mystery of missing jewelry.
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El Capit?n Calzoncillos y la sensacional saga del Se?or Sohediondo

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.
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