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English
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A quiet English country village is disturbed by the arrival of a mysterious stranger who keeps his face hidden and his back to everyone. The stranger--a brilliant scientist--has uncovered the secret to invisibility, but his grandiose dreams and the power he unleashes cause him to spiral into intrigue, madness, and murder!
2) Top secret
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Pub. Date
[1984]
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English
Description
Despite the disapproval of his parents and his formidable science teacher, nine-year-old Allen determines to do his science project on human photosynthesis.
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English
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A hyper-curious young girl tries a series of wacky experiments, such as seeing if a piece of bologna will fly like a frisbee and determining whether seedlings will grow if watered with expensive perfume, and then must suffer the consequences of experiments gone awry.
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Español
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El hombre invisible de H.G. Wells es una novela clásica de ciencia ficción que sigue la historia del Dr. Griffin, un brillante científico que descubre una forma de hacerse invisible. Mientras Griffin experimenta con su nuevo poder, sucumbe a la locura y utiliza su invisibilidad con fines siniestros. La novela explora temas como el poder, la moralidad y las consecuencias de una ambición científica desmedida. A medida que las acciones de Griffin...
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Zoey and Sassafras volume 1
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A girl, Zoey, and her cat, Sassafras, use science experiments to help a dragon with a problem.
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Zoey and Sassafras volume 2
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A girl, Zoey, and her cat, Sassafras use science experiments to help a monster with a problem.
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Series
Tales from the House of Bunnicula volume 1
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
With help from his Uncle Harold, who wrote books about Bunnicula, Howie the wire-haired dachshund writes a story in which he saves the world from a science experiment gone awry.
10) I am smart
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
After worrying about what to do for his science fair project, a young boy takes his mother's suggestion to find the science in his life.
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Series
Zoey and Sassafras volume 5
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
An old friend visits Zoey with a glowing seed pod. Zoey, Sassafras and Pip must work together to discover what this mysterious and rare magical plant needs to grow before all the seeds crumble to purple dust!--from book jacket.
12) Fries alive!
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Series
Freddy and the French Fries volume 1
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
While competing with a rival restaurant for the winning float in the Founder's Day parade, nine-year-old Freddy Funkhouser constructs a batch of animated French fries in his secret laboratory that come to life after receiving an enormous jolt of electricity.
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Series
Jake Drake series volume 2
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Jake is determined to win the third grade science fair not only for the grand prize, but to beat the annoying class know-it-alls, as well.
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Series
Spy next door volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Third-grader Dexter Drabner dreams of being a skateboarding-hero-spy, while contending with his nemesis at school, Millicent the bully--and when science teacher Mr. McFur's prized lab rat, Pretty, eats a piece of radioactive gamma broccoli and grows to the size of an elephant, he gets his chance to save the school from destruction.
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Series
Max Einstein volume 1
Language
English
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Max Einstein and a group of international geniuses use their creativity and curiosity to help solve some of the world's toughest problems with science.--
16) Origin
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Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Pia has grown up in a secret laboratory hidden deep in the Amazon rain forest. She was raised by a team of scientists who have created her to be the start of a new immortal race. But on the night of her seventeenth birthday, Pia discovers a hole in the electric fence that surrounds her sterile home--and sneaks outside the compound for the first time in her life. Free in the jungle, Pia meets Eio, a boy from a nearby village. Together, they embark...
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Questioneers volume 3
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English
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Ada Twist is a very curious girl who shows perseverance by asking questions and performing experiments to find things out and understand the world.
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Series
Max Einstein volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
"Max Einstein es la típica niña de 12 años... va a la universidad cada día, juego al ajedrez en el parque, construye inventos que ayudan a la gente sin hogar, y le gusta hablar con Albert Einstein. Lo típico, ¿No? Hasta que un día es reclutada por una misteriosa organizatción. Su misión: acabaar con los problemas del mundo usando la ciencia. Ella y un equipo de jóvenes genios de todo el mundo tendrán que ayudar a loas personas más desfaborcedidas...
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Series
Acadia files volume 3
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A melting snowman leads her-of course!-to explore climate change and how to reduce her carbon footprint. The helium balloons at her eleventh birthday party beg questions-naturally!-of molecular structure, weights of gases,and neutral buoyancy. An afternoon making paper airplanes brings discoveries in aerodynamics. Tracks in the snow raise questions of how animals survive the winter. And an afternoon of sledding slides right into an investigation of...
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