Inventions category: 208 books

How did somebody come up with the idea for bridges, skyscrapers, helicopters, and nightlights? How did people figure out how to build them? In 3D Engineering: Design and Build Your Own Prototypes, young readers tackle real-life engineering problems by figuring out real-life solutions. Kids...

How could a smarter locker make life easier for the kids in your school? Great inventors use a process called design thinking to help them identify problems, big and small, and create solutions for them. This book introduces readers to design thinking and asks them to look at their locker (the pros...

How could a smarter library checkout system make life easier for the kids and librarian in your school? Great inventors use a process called design thinking to help them identify problems, big and small, and create solutions for them. This book introduces readers to design thinking and asks them to...

What is big data and what does it have to do with you? Have you watched videos online today? Did you post photographs on social media? Did you upload your English essay to Google docs? All of these questions are questions about data. Data is information. It can be stored in books, magazines,...

A brand-new Guinness World Records book for kids! From a robot babysitter to the largest walking and fire-breathing robot, this book is filled with record-breaking androids of all shapes, sizes, and occupations! Simple text and full-color photos will make learning about this exciting topic...

Capturing an engineer’s creative vision and mind for detail, this fully illustrated picture book biography sheds light on how the American inventor George Ferris defied gravity and seemingly impossible odds to invent the world’s most iconic amusement park attraction, the Ferris wheel. A fun, fact-filled...

Rocketry: Investigate the Science and Technology of Rockets and Ballistics introduces students to the fascinating world of rocketry and ballistics. Readers discover the history of rocket development, from the earliest fire arrows in China to modern-day space shuttles, as well as the main concepts...

This book about robots gives detailed explanations of all the robots around us, how they're powered, how they move, and what they can do. This title includes diagrams, a glossary, an index, and discussion questions to aid in reading comprehension. Grade: 3 Subject: Physical Science Genre: Informational...

This 254-word book tells all about the history of the telephone from its invention by Alexander Graham Bell to its use today. This title includes an index and discussion questions to aid in reading comprehension. Grade: 1 Subject: History Genre: Nonfiction Narrative Comprehension Skill/Strategy:...

With every new feat, there is at least one big failure. Learn about some of the biggest technological feats and failures in human history in this fascinating, Spanish-translated nonfiction title that allows readers to discover some of the technological innovations that have made life easier. Featuring...

Explore the ocean and learn all about coordinate planes simultaneously! Translated in Spanish, this exciting e-book teaches readers about ocean maps and the history of ocean navigation. Learn about Earth's five oceans and how these oceans can be mapped - with sonar, submersibles, and satellites. Readers...

All the good things that you enjoy today are products of the brilliant minds of scientists. These are the people who did a lot of research to discover more about the world, and from there, create technologies that we enjoy today. This book includes the best achievements, laid out in a fun and easy-to-under manner. Grab a copy today!

A surprising true story of Isaac Newton’s boyhood suggests an intellectual development owing as much to magic as science. Before Isaac Newton became the father of physics, an accomplished mathematician, or a leader of the scientific revolution, he was a boy living in an apothecary’s house,...

It’s 1901 and Henry Ford wants to build a car that everyone can own. But first he needs the money to produce it. How will he get it? He enters a car race, of course! Readers will love this fast-paced, fact-based story!