What Has Wild Tom Done Now?
Highlights the life of the prolific inventor who gave the world such useful items as the electric light, motion pictures, and the phonograph.
920
year: 1981
copies: 3
call number/section: 920
lexile:
Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs
Young inventor Flint Lockwood creates a machine that causes cheeseburgers to rain for the sky.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 308
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 730
subjects: weather, food, humorous fiction [X], 6+1 traits of writing, audiobooks, video recordings for the hearing impaired, television weathercasters, food habits, inventors [X], grandfathers, humorous stories, compact discs
Melonhead
In the Washington, D.C. neighborhood of Capitol Hill, Lucy Rose's friend Adam "Melonhead" Melon, a budding inventor with a knack for getting into trouble, enters a science contest that challenges students to recycle an older invention into a new invention.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 38
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 620
subjects: inventors [X], humorous stories, humorous fiction [X], washington (d.c.), humorous fiction
Wedgieman To The Rescue
Superhero Veggieman, better known as Wedgieman, faces off against Bad Dude, an inventor whose Make-Things-Disappear Machine causes trouble on the playground.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 310
subjects: superheroes, inventors [X], vegetables, humorous fiction [X], juvenile fiction / humorous stories
Bubble In The Bathtub
Doctor Proctor, an inventor of bizarre things, uses his time-traveling bathtub to go back in time and fix some things, but when he cannot get back, Nilly and Lisa meet him in the past with some of the magical fart powder he invented.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 800
subjects: time travel, inventors [X], humorous fiction [X], paris (france), france, engineers, humorous stories
The Templeton Twins Make A Scene
Abigail and John Templeton find themselves at TAPAS (the Thespian Academy of the Performing Arts and Sciences) where their father, the illustrious Professor Templeton, has been hired to invent a groundbreaking theatrical device.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 830
Billy Sure, Kid Entrepreneur
Twelve-year-old Billy and his best friend Manny become entrepreneurs after launching a product known as the "All Ball," which can transform into different sports balls, but a major secret Billy is keeping has the potential to destroy their success and expose Billy as a fraud.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 610
subjects: humorous stories, inventors [X], contests, young businesspeople, science, inventions, humorous fiction, entrepreneurs, humorous fiction [X]
Frank Einstein And The Evoblaster Belt
Boy genius Frank Einstein finds himself in competition with his classmate and archrival T.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 50
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 700
subjects: humorous stories, inventors [X], robots, science fiction, humorous fiction [X], science fiction, humorous fiction
Billy Sure Kid Entrepreneur And The Best Test
Genius kid inventor Billy Sure has created Sure Things, Inc., his business where he invents new and awesome things.
FIC
year:
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: businesspeople, inventors [X], trade secrets, young businesspeople, inventions, business intelligence, ability, humorous fiction [X], humorous fiction
Billy Sure, Kid Entrepreneur And The Cat-dog Translator
Billy Sure, a twelve-year-old inventor and CEO of Sure Things, Inc.
FIC
year:
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: businesspeople, inventions, inventors [X], pets, animal communication, humorous stories, human-animal communication, secrecy, humorous fiction [X], humorous fiction
Flint Saves The Day
Flint Lockwood suddenly becomes popular when the young inventor creates a machine that can rain showers of food; but when the machine malfunctions, Flint must find a way to fix it before the town and the world is destroyed by giant-sized food.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: inventors [X], machinery, food, humorous stories, humorous fiction [X], movie novels, humorous fiction, movie novels, readers (elementary)