Graham Ross
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Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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What's a kid entrepreneur to do when he loses his math homework? Invent the Everything Locator, of course! Billy's next invention is a device that will find any lost item and return it to you. But the Everything Locator has one teeny, tiny problem, it returns every item that Billy has ever lost, all at once! Will Billy find a way to make everything right with the Everything Locator? Will he even be able to dig his way out of this pile of junk? Find...
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English
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Sing Out and Shout , everyones favorite singing competition TV showthat is, until they find out theyre not judges, theyre contestants! When Manny sings, everyone cheers. But when Billy takes the stage, his voice CRACKS! and breaks a mirror! How will Billy survive the competition? Could inventing a Magical Microphone do the trick? Find out in this wacky story with funny black-and-white illustrations throughout.
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English
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Billy Sure and Manny Reyes switch jobs at Sure Things, Inc. in the eleventh book of a hilarious middle grade series!
Meet Manny Reyes, inventor and CEO of Sure Things, Inc....wait, what?!
It's a friendly switcheroo at Sure Things, Inc.! Manny decides to roll out Sure Things, Inc.'s Next Big Thing-the Candy Toothbrush. Of course every good inventor needs a good CFO, so Billy steps up to the plate. But is Manny a better kid inventor than Billy?...
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Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Discovering that he has been exchanging emails with a corporate spy from a rival company, seventh-grade innovator Billy Sure and his best friend set a trap to catch the culprit before he reveals Sure Things, Inc.'s valuable secrets.
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Publisher
Formac Publishing Company Limited
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Max and his friends are on a camping trip at Camp Friendly Pines when he's stung by a wasp. Max gets a case of the Super Fidgets and devises a counting game to distract himself. If he loses, he will have to forfeit his campfire treats! It's not easy being a kid. And Max discovers that his games don't always work out the way he wants them to. But no matter what, he has the love and understanding of his friends.
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Publisher
Formac Publishing Company Limited
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Max gets a case of the Super Fidgets on a school trip to the art gallery. He decides to focus on the color green to distract himself. It's not easy but he's determined to win the challenge he has set. Max finds that while it's not always easy being a kid - especially if you're a bit different - inspiration sometimes strikes at the most unexpected times.
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Series
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Billy?s mom has always claimed she is a scientist doing research for the government, but he?s always suspected that there was more to the story. And as it turns out, he was right! His mom is a spy, and now she has enrolled him in spy school so he can create inventions for her top-secret spy unit. Billy created an inventions for his mom but the blueprints disappear it's up to Billy to find out who stole them.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Billy's latest invention is the Best Test is designed to help kids figure out what they are the best at. Billy is excited about his invention until he takes the test himself and the results say he is not best at inventing.
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Series
Data Set volume 7
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Dr. Bunsen has built a TV remote that can fast forward or rewind real time, but things spin out of control when the DATA Set accidentally change the channel. They have to escape cowboys and aliens to get back to their own reality before the universe is broken forever.
17) The Paper Wagon
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English
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The rooster has been kidnapped by the fox. What is the little hen to do? Go to the shed and build a paper wagon, that's what. With two Herculean mice in place of horses, the little hen heads for the fox's house deep in the forest. On the way, she is joined by a cat, a brick, a needle and a hairy spider, all desperate for a ride. Will they be able to complete the rescue?
18) Monster Lunch
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English
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In Monster Lunch we dine with Frankenstein, attend a burgoo and a birthday party, meet a grumpy garden dude and slurp hot zoop. Each poem is followed by an interview with the main character or fascinating facts about food. This collection of yummy, yucky, messy and hot rhyming stories is bursting with rhythmical fun.
19) Cheetah
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English
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Cheetah is the small spotted frog Amelia brings home in a macaroni container. Amelia longs to keep Cheetah forever, but over the course of a week, she comes to understand that his place is back in the wild. Cheetah is based on a true story, and all the characters are real.
20) Alphabetter
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English
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Did you ever try to use an egg in place of a football? Or dress up a live quail in doll's clothes when you didn't have a doll? Or strap rag-dolls onto your feet in place of slippers? In Alphabetter, twenty-six boys and girls find themselves in twenty-six different predicaments when the alphabet refuses to cooperate with them. In the end, the solution turns out to be right on the next page, if only they can find it...