Inventions
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Who Was Thomas Alva Edison?
$6.99 Add to cartOne day in 1882, Thomas Edison flipped a switch that lit up lower Manhattan with incandescent light and changed the way people live ever after. The electric light bulb was only one of thousands of Edi… [more below]
- Series: Who Was…?
- Author: Frith, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 29 2005
- ISBN10: 0448437651
- Language: English
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What Was the Bombing of Hiroshima?
$7.99 Add to cartHiroshima is where the first atomic bomb was dropped. Now readers will learn the reasons why and what it’s meant for the world ever since.
By August 1945, World War II was over in Europe, but the figh- Series: What Was?
- Author: Brallier, Jess
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 17, 2020
- ISBN10: 1524792659
- Language: English
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Who Were the Wright Brothers?
$6.99 Add to cartAs young boys, Orville and Wilbur Wright loved all things mechanical. As young men, they gained invaluable skills essential for their success by working with printing presses, bicycles, motors, and an… [more below]
- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Buckley, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 1, 2014
- ISBN10: 0448479516
- Language: English
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Flashback to the . . . Chill 2000s!: Ready-To-Read Level 2
$17.99 Read moreChillax with the trends, fashion, technology, and inventions of the 2000s in this Level 2 Ready-to-Read full of fun facts, illustrations, and interactive backmatter!
In the 2000s, Juicy Couture velour- Series: Flashback
- Author: Cruz, Gloria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1665940905
- Language: English
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Masked Hero: How Wu Lien-Teh Invented the Mask That Ended an Epidemic
$18.99 Read moreMeet Dr. Wu Lien-teh, defeater of the Manchurian plague–in a story authored by his great-granddaughter, an emergency physician who relied on his life-saving invention during a pandemic a century late… [more below]
- Author: Liu, Shan Woo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1536228982
- Language: English
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Edison’s Ghosts: The Untold Weirdness of History’s Greatest Geniuses
$29.00 Read morePublishers Weekly Best Summer Reads
Overturn everything you knew about history’s greatest minds in this raucous and hilarious book, where it turns out there’s a finer line between “genius” and “idiot- Author: Spalding, Katie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 0316529524
- Language: English
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What Color Is My World?: The Lost History of African-American Inventors
$8.99 Read more“Get ready to have your mind blown with this fun book.” — The Washington Post
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, basketball legend and the NBA’s all-time leading scorer, champions a lineup of little-known African-- Author: Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: December 10 2013
- ISBN10: 0763664421
- Language: English
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My First Book of Airplanes: All about Flying Machines for Kids
$7.99 Add to cartIt’s time for takeoff! Get curious kids excited about amazing airplanes with this colorful book for ages 3-5
From the Wright brothers and Amelia Earhart, to the latest Mars mission, people have always- Series: My First Book of
- Author: Holzweiss, Kristina A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 68
- Publish Date: November 1, 2022
- ISBN10: 1685395635
- Language: English
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Cardboard Box Engineering: Cool, Inventive Projects for Tinkerers, Makers & Future Scientists
$18.99 Add to cartCardboard is everywhere For creative kids aged 9 to 14, it’s the perfect eco-friendly building material, and Cardboard Box Engineering is the perfect guide to get them started on inventive tinkering…. [more below]
- Author: Adolph, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 27 2020
- ISBN10: 1635862140
- Language: English
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Getting Started with Arduino: The Open Source Electronics Prototyping Platform
$19.99 Add to cartArduino is the open source electronics prototyping platform that is the heart of the Maker world. This thorough introduction, updated for the latest Arduino IDE release and the new ARM-based boards, h
- Author: Banzi, Massimo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 285
- Publish Date: March 22, 2022
- ISBN10: 1680456938
- Language: English
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The Five Impossible Tasks of Eden Smith
$18.99 Add to cartChallenged by a secret society of metalworkers, Eden must do all she can to save the only family she has left in this fantasy adventure.
When Eden Smith moves into the beautiful and bizarre old mansio- Author: Llewellyn, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 082345312X
- Language: English
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Fiona Builds a Fairy House
$18.99 Read moreHelp Fiona build her very own fairy house in this quirky, magical tale about a girl who believes in fairies, and decides to do something about it!
When Fiona has the idea to build her very own fairy h- Author: Dickson, Kristen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: August 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 1250792576
- Language: English
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The Code of Life
$20.99 Add to cartA brilliant non-fiction book explaining the world of genetics and heredity to children – with exciting ideas for their own experiments.
Why do children look like their parents? Why are some people blo- Author: Hafner, Carla
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: 2-Jan-24
- ISBN10: 1838748849
- Language: English
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The Unexpected Light of Thomas Alva Edison
$17.99 Read moreFrom New York Times bestselling author and news anchor Raymond Arroyo comes the first book in the Turnabout Tales series–a picture book biography of one of America’s most famous inventors, Thomas Alv
- Series: Turnabout Tales
- Author: Arroyo, Raymond
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0310799236
- Language: English
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The Einstein Effect: How the World’s Favorite Genius Got Into Our Cars, Our Bathrooms, and Our Minds
$16.99 Add to cart“A fascinating and funny guide to history’s favorite genius–and why he still matters.” –A.J. Jacobs, New York Times bestselling author
A fascinating look into how Einstein’s genius and science contin
- Author: Cohen, Benyamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 18, 2023
- ISBN10: 1728248388
- Language: English
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Mistakes That Worked: 40 Familiar Inventions & How They Came to Be
$12.99 Add to cartThe greatest discoveries are made outside the classroom Learn all about mistakes that changed the world with this collection of the strange stories behind everyday inventions It’s no accident that y
- Author: Jones, Charlotte Foltz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 01, 1994
- ISBN10: 0385320434
- Language: English
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I Can Build It!: An Acorn Book (Princess Truly #3): Volume 3
$4.99 Read moreDream BIG with Princess Truly, in this rhyming early reader perfect for fans of Rosie Revere, Engineer!
Pick a book. Grow a Reader!
This series is part of Scholastic’s early reader line, Acorn, aimed a
- Series: Princess Truly #3
- Author: Greenawalt, Kelly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: March 03, 2020
- ISBN10: 1338340093
- Language: English
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All Charged Up!: Big Ideas That Changed the World #5
$15.99 Add to cartAward-winning author-illustrator Don Brown explores the history of electricity in this installment of the Big Ideas That Changed the World series.
In 600 BCE, the Greek mathematician Thales observed- Series: Big Ideas That Changed the World
- Author: Brown, Don
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1419766732
- Language: English
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Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
$35.00 Add to cartA New York Times Bestseller
In the spirit of Steve Jobs and Moneyball, Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary life of one of Silicon Valley’s most exciting, unpredic
- Author: Vance, Ashlee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 19, 2015
- ISBN10: 0062301233
- Language: English
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Flight Paths: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration
$30.00 Add to cart- Author: Heisman, Rebecca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063161141
- Language: English
