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2) The jerk
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A rags-to-riches-to-rags story. Navin Johnson, adopted son of a poor black sharecropper family, has invented some crazy inventions that lead him from rags to riches and right back to rags.
3) Poco loco
Author
Publisher
Amazon Children's Pub
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Description
Mouse inventor Poco Loco has to use his wits and one of his crazy inventions in order to save his friends after a strong wind drags them into the sky.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Description
Hector McGregor, inventor of peppermint pencils, glow-in-the-dark books, and other unusual items, leaves his home workshop to work in a laboratory but finds that his inspiration comes from being around his cheery wife, five children, and a hen called Hattie.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
106 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
Expanded and revised, this new edition of the best-selling book celebrates the ingenious inventions of women throughout time. As inspiring as they are fascinating, these stories empower readers to imagine, to question, to experiment, and then to go forth... and invent.
Author
Publisher
The Innovation Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Description
"Like most of us, Frances Gabe detested housework -- she found cleaning a "nerve-twangling bore". Unlike most of us, she invented a contraption to free herself from this tedious task forever: a self-cleaning house! Gabe's wacky, wonderful home included almost 70 new patented inventions, from a soap-spraying sprinkler in the ceiling to a kitchen cabinet that washed, dried, and stored dishes all in one place. Though Gabe's invention didn't catch on,...
Author
Publisher
Dragon Fruit
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
141 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
Black people beyond the token names everyone knows have been accomplishing remarkable things in every discipline: arts, sciences, politics, religion, sports, and more. Meet an entire alphabet of black inventors and scientists from the person who developed the traffic signal to the woman who helped pioneer modern computing for NASA.
Author
Series
Adventures of Wedgieman volume 3
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"When Bad Dude creates a machine that makes objects grow enormously or shrink to tiny size, it's up to Wedgieman to straighten things out"--
Author
Series
Ben Treven thrillers volume 1
Formats
Description
In Silicon Valley, the eccentric inventor of a new encryption application is murdered in an apparent drug deal.In Istanbul, a cynical undercover operator receives a frantic call from his estranged brother, a patent lawyer who believes he is the next victim.And on the sun-drenched slopes of Sand Hill Road, Silicon Valley's nerve center of money and technology, old family hurts sting anew as two brothers who share nothing but blood and bitterness wage...
12) Awesome Dawson
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
©2013
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Description
All his life, Dawson has been inventing things, repairing toys in unusual ways, and helping clean up his neighborhood by reusing discarded objects, but when his Vacu-Maniac malfunctions it is his friend Mooey whose brainpower saves the day.
Author
Publisher
Nomad Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
v, 122 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Description
"Most people have heard of Thomas Edison, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg, but how about Daniel Hale Williams, Mae Jemison, and Mary Anderson? The world owes a lot to the unsung heroes of innovation, people who used their ideas to make the world a better place through advances in health, technology, food science, and discovery! In Innovators: The Stories Behind the People Who Shaped the World, readers ages 9 to 12 learn about many inventions, products,...
Author
Series
Templeton twins volume 1
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
227 p. : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Description
Abigail and John, the Templeton twins, and their dog Cassie, foil a pair of inept kidnappers intent on stealing one of their father's newest inventions.
19) Joy
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Formats
Description
A wild story of a family across four generations centered on the girl who becomes the woman who founds a business dynasty and becomes a matriarch in her own right. Betrayal, treachery, the loss of innocence and the scars of love, pave the road in this intense emotional and human comedy about becoming a true boss of family and enterprise facing a world of unforgiving commerce.
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