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Saving lives did not come easily to 15-year-old Jack Andraka. Here, the 18-year-old recounts how he overcame various challenges on his way to developing a life-changing early-detection test to better diagnose pancreatic cancer. Readers discover that, with a lot of hard work and a firm goal in sight, anyone can change the world.
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Publisher Annotation: In kitchens and living rooms, in garages and labs and basements, even in converted chicken coops, women and girls have invented ingenious innovations that have made our lives simpler and better. What inspired these girls, and just how did they turn their ideas into realities? Retaining reader-tested favorite inventions, this updated edition of the best-selling Girls Think of Everything features seven new chapters that better...
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National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
c1999
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English
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A biography, with photographs and quotes from Bell himself, which follows this well known inventor from his childhood in Scotland through his life-long efforts to come up with ideas that would improve people's lives.
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Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights
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[2018]
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English
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Explores the extraordinary achievement of Cyrus Field and one of the greatest engineering feats of the 19th century. Laying a transatlantic telegraph cable to create instant communication between two continents
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