Catalog Search Results
Author
Physical Desc
242 pages ; 22 cm
Language
Español
Description
At seven, Ivan Drago enters a game contest and is selected among ten thousand boys. From that moment on, his life changes completely. His parents disappear mysteriously and he is forced to live first with his aunt and then his grandfather, the famous inventor of games, Nicolas Drago. This opens a world of adventure and mystery and his life becomes part of an incomprehensible game.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Lord Wrexford discovers the body of a gifted inventor in a dark London alley, he promptly alerts the watchman and lets the authorities handle the matter. But Wrexford soon finds himself drawn into the murder investigation when the inventor's widow begs for his assistance, claiming the crime was not a random robbery. It seems her husband's designs for a revolutionary steam-powered engine went missing the night of his death. The plans could be...
Author
Series
Carmer and Grit volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Aspiring inventor and magician's apprentice Felix Carmer III is aided by Grit, a fiery, flightless faerie princess, in winning a magic competition, in exchange for him helping Grit investigate a string of faerie disappearances.
Author
Series
Physical Desc
123 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eliza Boom is the daughter of a spy gadget inventor who hopes to create a great invention like her father, but first she needs to get a roll of her father's top-secret film back from the class bully Zoe Wakefield.
10) The kidnap plot
Author
Series
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When young Charlie Pondicherry sets out to rescue his inventor-father from kidnappers, he uncovers a dastardly plan that he must help to foil, and discovers a great truth about himself.
Author
Physical Desc
xvii, 251 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
From the author who gave us "Cod," "Salt," and other informative bestsellers, the first biography of Clarence Birdseye, the eccentric genius inventor whose fast-freezing process revolutionized the food industry and American agriculture.
12) Control freaks
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The kids at Benjamin Banneker College Prep are a little ... competitive. Okay. They're a LOT competitive. The minute Principal Yee announces an epic competition for the golden B-B trophy, seventh-grader Frederick Douglass Zezzmer knows he has to win. But it won't be easy. The competition doesn't just include science, technology, engineering and math. It also has arts and sports. Not Doug's best subjects ... With only a week to go, Doug launches a...
Author
Physical Desc
127 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"This nonfiction book for middle readers is full of inspiring tales of inventors and innovators who have accidentally changed the world. The book also features profiles of inventive kids and teenagers."--
14) Edison's gold
Author
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Tom Edison and his friends become embroiled in a mystery involving his "double-great" grandfather's inventions, a secret society, and a vendetta being carried out by a descendant of inventor Nikola Tesla.
Author
Series
Frankie Sparks third-grade inventor volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Frankie Sparks, the self-proclaimed "best inventor in the third grade," does research and creates a tool to try to persuade her classmates that a rat would make the best class pet.
16) Tesla's attic
Author
Series
Accelerati trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"With a plot combining science and the supernatural, four kids are caught up in a dangerous plan concocted by the eccentric inventor, Nikola Tesla"--
17) Field tripped
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The fifth graders of Liberty Falls Elementary have a reputation for trouble, but they manage to convince their principal to let them go on a field trip to the mansion of Edward Minks (local inventor, founder of the town, and great-great-great grandfather of fifth-grader Eddie), and search for the secret inventions that are rumored to be hidden there--but once at the estate they find that they are not the only people searching, and somehow this class...
Author
Series
Frank Einstein volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Frank Einstein (kid-genius, scientist, and inventor) and his best friend, Watson, along with Klink (a self-assembled artificial-intelligence entity) and Klank (a mostly self-assembled and artificial almost intelligence entity), once again find themselves in competition with T. Edison, their classmate and archrival, this time studying the science and mysteries of the universe!"--
20) Scan
Author
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Tate Archer outruns armed government officials as he tries to keep his now dead father's strange invention out of the wrong hands, alien hands"--
Looking for an older book we don’t have?
Printed books not owned by Santa Fe Public Library that were released more than 6 months ago can be requested from other Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup. Limit: 3 per calendar month.
Looking for a newer item we don’t have?
Suggest the library purchase a new book, DVD, audiobook, or music CD through your account. Limit: 30 active requests at a time. Submit Purchase Suggestion