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Nick and Tesla are bright 11-year-old siblings with a knack for science, electronics, and getting into trouble. When their parents mysteriously vanish, they?re sent to live with their Uncle Newt, a brilliant inventor who engineers top-secret gadgets for a classified government agency. It?s not long before Nick and Tesla are embarking on adventures of their own?engineering all kinds of outrageous MacGyverish contraptions to save their skin: 9-volt...
10) Tools
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Photographs and simple text introduce different devices used by people around the world to make our lives and work easier.
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"... Five-gallon buckets are ubiquitous and cheap (indeed, they are often free). But did you know they can also be hacked, hot-rodded, reengineered, and upcycled to create dozens of useful DIY projects for homeowners, gardeners, small-scale farmers, and preppers? 5-Gallon Bucket Book contains 60+ ideas that put these humble and hard-working mainstays to work past their prime and keep them out of landfills. ..."--from back cover.
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"After foiling a gang of kidnappers and fending off an army of robots, 11-year-old siblings Nick and Tesla Holt could use a little rest! But as their third mystery opens, they discover there's a spy in their midst, searching for secrets in the home of their beloved (and slightly crazy) Uncle Newt. Is it the new laboratory assistant? The exterminator? The housekeepers? Or someone completely unexpected? To expose the mystery agent, Nick and Tesla must...
16) Get Smart
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Agent 86 is the bungling secret agent Maxwell Smart. He works for CONTROL. They are on a mission to battle the forces of their evil crime nemesis known as KAOS. Smart has along side with him the competent and beautiful Agent 99. The headquarters of the U.S. spy agency CONTROL is attacked and the identities of its agents are compromised, the Chief has no choice but to promote his analyst Maxwell Smart, who has dreamed of working in the field with superstar...
18) Things up close
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"In Things Up Close, young readers view common objects-a pencil, sponge, toothbrush, and seashell-from a new perspective and learn uncommon facts about each one."--Provided by publisher.