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Author
Series
Publication Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Rosie Revere is no stranger to flops and fails, kerfuffles and catastrophes. After all, engineering is all about perseverance! But this time, Rosie has a really important project to tackle - one that feels much bigger than herself. Rosie's beloved Aunt Rose and her friends, the Raucous Riveters - a group of fun-loving gals who built airplanes during World War II - need help inventing something new. And Rosie is just the engineer for the job! After...
3) Lone eagle
Author
Publication Date
2001
Language
English
Formats
Description
The phone call came on a snowy December afternoon. Kate was certain it was Joe, her soulmate since they'd met thirty-four years before. What she got was the one call she had never wanted, and didn't expect. It took her mind back to the moment when she and Joe first met, when she was just seventeen and he was young, powerful, dazzling and different from any man she'd ever known. It is Christmas, 1940, and Kate is making her debut in New York society....
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Publication Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 0.5
Language
English
Description
This true story follows the story of Beatrice Shilling, a woman whose ingenuity, persistence, and mechanical expertise helped Britain win World War II.
"Beatrice Shilling wasn't quite like other children. She could make anything. She could fix anything. And when she took a thing apart, she put it back together better than before. When Beatrice left home to study engineering, she knew that as a girl she wouldn't be quite like the other engineers--and...
Author
Series
Publication Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
In A.D. 327, a Roman galley barely escapes a pirate attack with its extraordinary caro. In 1916, a British warship mysteriously explodes in the North Sea. In the present day, a cluster of mosques in Turkey and Egypt are wracked by explosions. Does anything tie them together?
Author
Publisher
O'Reilly Media
Publication Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"For years, companies have rewarded their most effective engineers with management positions. But treating management as the default path for an engineer with leadership ability doesn't serve the industry well--or the engineer. The staff engineer's path allows engineers to contribute at a high level as role models, driving big projects, determining technical strategy, and raising everyone's skills. This in-depth book shows you how to understand your...
Author
Publication Date
2025.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Engineer Trishara Malik once dreamed of being the first woman of color to smash the glass ceiling at WMC Purcell, but after years of dealing with white male privilege and blatant nepotism, she watches her hard-earned promotion go to her nemesis, Rafe Gallagher-the boss's son. Teetering on the edge of burnout, Tris is stunned when she's picked to attend WMC's corporate leadership retreat in Hawaii. It's a chance to revive her stalled career and compete...
Author
Publication Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
"...A dying town, a divided family, and a band of teenage dreamers dared to look beyond their differences and set their sights on the stars--and saw a future that the nation was just beginning to imagine"--Jacket.
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers
Publication Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"This STEM/STEAM picture book tells the story of Edith Clarke, the innovator who solved an electrical mystery and built the first graphing calculator--from paper, an accomplishment that helped her become of the first woman electrical engineer in America"-- Provided by publisher.
Edith Clarke devoured numbers, puzzles, and brainteasers. She was an innovator who dreams of how mathematics could modernize America. Fascinated by electricity, Clarke solved...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Publication Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
"Harley Savage is a plain, rawboned woman, a part-time museum curator and quilting expert with three failed marriages and a heart condition. Douglas Cheeseman is a shy, gawky engineer with jug-handle ears, one marriage gone sour, and a crippling lack of physical courage. Seeming to be incompetent was something Douglas did to protect himself, just as having a "dangerous streak" served the same purpose for Harley."--Jacket.
Author
Series
Amazing scientists volume 3
Publisher
The Innovation Press
Publication Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 0.5
Language
English
Description
This is a rhyming-text picture book about Raye Montague. After touring a German submarine in the early 1940s, young Raye set her sights on becoming an engineer. Little did she know sexism and racial inequality would challenge that dream every step of the way, even keeping her greatest career accomplishment a secret for decades. Through it all, the gifted mathematician persisted-- finally gaining her well-deserved title in history: a pioneer who changed...
Author
Publication Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 0.5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When 14-year-old William Kamkwamba's Malawi village was hit by a drought in 2001, everyone's crops began to fail. His family didn't have enough money for food, let alone school, so William spent his days in the library. He came across a book on windmills and figured out how to build a windmill that could bring electricity to his village. Everyone thought he was crazy but William persevered and managed to create a functioning windmill out of junkyard...
17) Engineers
Author
Publisher
Creative Education and Creative Paperbacks
Publication Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Early readers will learn how some engineers build roads and bridges. This title highlights what engineers do, where they work, and how they help the community."-- Publisher's website
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Publication Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Learn all about the careers you could have if you love robots in this fascinating nonfiction Level 2 Ready-to-Read, part of a series that gives readers a sneak peek at how they can turn their passions into careers!Do you love robots? Is your family's robot vacuum your favorite thing in the house? Then you could be a robotics mechanical engineer, electrical engineer, or systems engineer when you grow up! Learn about these careers and about different...
19) Tesla
Publisher
VVS Films
Publication Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A freewheeling take on visionary inventor Nikola Tesla, his interactions with Thomas Edison and J.P. Morgan's daughter Anne, and his breakthroughs in transmitting electrical power and light.