"In an age where fantastic inventions of steam and brass have elevated Britain and China into mighty empires, Alice Michaels faces a future of technological terrors...."

"Frank Einstein (kid-genius, scientist, and inventor) and his best friend Watson, along with Klink (a self-assembled artificial-intelligence entity), and Klank (a mostly self-assembled and artificial almost intelligence entity), once again find themselvesin competition with T. Edison, their classmate and archrival--this time in the quest to unlock the power behind the science of the human body"-- Provided by publisher.

A machine that could stop radiation would shift the balance of world power overnight. In the right hands, it could herald a new age of world peace. In the wrong hands, it would spell disaster. The brilliant Dr. Wogan has designed such a machine. But she has gone missing, along with the plans. As her right-hand assistant, everyone looks to you to help find her.

Famous young inventor Billy Sure is hosting an online contest to help other kid inventors.

There's a talent contest at the Retroville Elementary School, and Jimmy, Carl, and Sheen each aim to win it, but Cindy and Libby have their eyes on the prize as well.

"Botasaur is missing! Rusty and Ruby build Tigerbot to find him"--Back cover.

Ten-year-old Libby Aimes escapes her prison-like home by using a strange concoction of her father's, then tries to make her way to the boarding school of her dreams, aided by various people and animals.

Providence the mouse travels through time to sixteenth-century Florence, Italy, where she shares an adventure with Leonardo da Vince, the inventor she admires so much.

Jimmy invents a sick patch-put it on and you're sick. Take it off and you're well again. He gives it to all his friends, and suddenly every kid in Retroville is staying home from school.

Hector McGregor, inventor of peppermint pencils, glow-in-the-dark books, and other unusual items, leaves his home workshop to work in a laboratory but finds that his inspiration comes from being around his cheery wife, five children, and a hen called Hattie.