Inventions & Progress

A Select List of Brown County Library Children’s Books (Kindergarten– Middle School) Click on each title below to see the library's catalog record. Then click on the title in the record for details, current availability, or to place a hold. For additional books and items on this theme, ask your librarian or search the library’s online catalog.

Early Elementary Picture Books

Archie the Daredevil Penguin by Andy Rash

Awesome Dawson by Chris Gall

Catch that Cookie! by A.A. Livingston

The Firehouse Light by Janet Nolan

Hogwash by Arthur Geisert

If I Built a House by Chris van Dusen

Jackrabbit McCabe and the Electric Telegraph by Lucy Rozier Junkyard Wonders by Patricia Polacco ages 7+ Lights Out by Arthur Geisert

Marveltown by Bruce McCall

The Moon over Star by Dianna Hutts Aston

The Most Magnificent Thing by Ashley Spires Oh No! Or How My Science Project Destroyed the World by Mac Barnett Papa’s Mechanical Fish by Candace Fleming ages 7+ Queen Victoria’s Bathing Machine by Gloria Whelan Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beatty The Tweedles Go Electric by Monica Kulling What Do You Do with an Idea? by Kobi Yamada

Fiction

The Creature Department by Robert Paul Weston

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Dr. Proctor’s Fart Powder (series) by Jo Nesbo The Field of Wacky Inventions (Floor series) by Patrick Carman Frank Einstein (series) by Jon Scieszka Franny K Stein (series) by Jim Benton Herbert’s Wormhole (series) by Peter Nelson House of Robots (new series) by James Patterson The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick The Island of Dr. Libris by Chris Grabenstein

Melonhead by Katy Kelly Monday with a Mad Genius (Magic Tree House #38) by Mary Pope Osborne

Mousenet by Prudence Breitrose The Mysteries of Cove (new series) by J. Scott Savage Nick and Tesla Mysteries (series) by Bob Pflugfelder The Orphan of Awkward Falls by Keith Graves The Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Crook by Eleanor Davis Slob by Ellen Potter STORM (series) by E.L. Young The Templeton Twins (series) by Ellis Weiner

Tesla’s Attic by Neal Shusterman The Unsinkable Walter Bean by Aaron Reiner The Unusual Mind of Vincent Shadow by Tim Kehoe A Whole Nother Story / Another Whole Nother Story / No Other Story by Cuthbert Soup

Non-Fiction / Biographies

Awesome Inventions You Use Every Day (series) by Lerner Publications Baffling and Bizarre Inventions by Jim Murphy Balloons over Broadway by Melissa Sweet Becoming Ben Franklin: How a Candle-Maker’s Son Helped Light the Flame of Liberty by Russell Freedman

Benjamin Franklin by Kathleen Krull Big Bad Ironclad: A Civil War Steamship Showdown by Nathan Hale The Boy who Invented TV: The Story of Philo Farnsworth by Kathleen Krull

The Day-Go Brothers: the True Story of Bob and Joe Switzer’s Bright Ideas and Page 2

Brand New Colors by Chris Barton

Earmuffs for Everyone: How Chester Greenwood became known as the Inventor of Earmuffs by Megan McCarthy

Electrical Wizard: How Nikola Tesla Lit Up the World by Elizabeth Rusch

Fact Finders. Invent It (series) by Tammy Enz Genius at Work! Great Inventor Biographies (series) by Enslow Publishers Get Inventing! by Mary Colson Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Inventions by Ingenious Inventions by Women by Catherine Thimmesh

A Great Idea (series) by Norwood House Press

I is for Idea: An Inventions Alphabet by Marcia Schonberg Invention (DK Eyewitness) by Lionel Bender

Inventions by Martine Podesto Leonardo da Vinci by Mary Pope Osborne Mr. Ferris and His Wheel by Kathryn Davis 1000 Inventions and Discoveries by Roger Brigman 10 Inventors who Changed the World by Clive Gifford Pop! The Invention of Bubble Gum by Meghan McCarthy Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Martins Star Stuff: Carl Sagan and the Mysteries of the Cosmos by Stephanie Sisson Timeless Thomas: How Thomas Edison Changed our Lives by Gene Barretta Tinkerlab: A Hands-On Guide for Little Inventors (shelved in parent-teacher) by Rachelle Doorley

We Thought of It (series) by Annick Press What Color is my World? The Lost History of African-American Inventors by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

A Wizard from the Start: The Incredible Boyhood & Amazing Inventions of Thomas Edison by Don Brown

Who Was?... / Who Where?... (series): Alexander Graham Bell, Ben Franklin, Henry Ford, Leonardo da Vinci, Steve Jobs, Thomas Alva Edison, The Wright Brothers

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