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| Author | : Emily Arnold McCully |
| Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) |
| Total Pages | : 36 |
| Release | : 2013-10-08 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1466852097 |
With her sketchbook labeled My Inventions and her father's toolbox, Mattie could make almost anything – toys, sleds, and a foot warmer. When she was just twelve years old, Mattie designed a metal guard to prevent shuttles from shooting off textile looms and injuring workers. As an adult, Mattie invented the machine that makes the square-bottom paper bags we still use today. However, in court, a man claimed the invention was his, stating that she "could not possibly understand the mechanical complexities." Marvelous Mattie proved him wrong, and over the course of her life earned the title of "the Lady Edison." With charming pen-and-ink and watercolor illustrations, this introduction to one of the most prolific female inventors will leave readers inspired. Marvelous Mattie is a 2007 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
| Author | : Monica Kulling |
| Publisher | : Tundra Books |
| Total Pages | : 34 |
| Release | : 2011-11-24 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1770491384 |
Tundra’s Great Idea Series is comprised of biographies of inventors for early readers. The third book in the series introduces the fascinating Margaret Knight. Known as Mattie, she was different from most American girls living in 1850. She loved to make things with wood and made the best kites and sleds in town. Her father died when she was only three, and by the time she was twelve, she was working at the local cotton mill alongside her two older brothers. One day, she saw a worker get injured by a shuttle that had come loose from the giant loom, and the accident inspired her to invent a stop-motion device. It was the first of her many inventions. Margaret Knight devoted her life to inventing, and is best known for the clever, practical, paper bag. When she died in 1914, she had ninety inventions to her name and over twenty patents, astounding accomplishments for a woman of her day. Monica Kulling’s easy-to-read text, peppered with lots of dialogue, brings an amazing, inspiring woman to life.
| Author | : Jane Wilsher |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 48 |
| Release | : 2021-02-02 |
| Genre | : Machinery |
| ISBN | : 9781912920204 |
Use the Magic Lens to reveal the inner workings of the machines all around us
| Author | : Marlene Targ Brill |
| Publisher | : Twenty-First Century Books |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Children as inventors |
| ISBN | : 9780761317562 |
Describes how Mattie Knight developed her first invention, a stop-motion device to make looms safer for workers.
| Author | : Sandra Dallas |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 1998-05-15 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780312187101 |
Mattie Spenser and her new husband Luke start off to the west. As they live their life Mattie keeps a journal of the joys and frustrations of frontier life and marriage.
| Author | : Amy Guglielmo |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 46 |
| Release | : 2018-08-28 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1534410988 |
Amy Guglielmo, Jacqueline Tourville, and Giselle Potter come together to tell the inspiring story of autism advocate Dr. Temple Grandin and her brilliant invention: the hug machine. As a young girl, Temple Grandin loved folding paper kites, making obstacle courses, and building lean-tos. But she really didn’t like hugs. Temple wanted to be held—but to her, hugs felt like being stuffed inside the scratchiest sock in the world; like a tidal wave of dentist drills, sandpaper, and awful cologne, coming at her all at once. Would she ever get to enjoy the comfort of a hug? Then one day, Temple had an idea. If she couldn’t receive a hug, she would make one…she would build a hug machine!
| Author | : Tracey Fern |
| Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) |
| Total Pages | : 40 |
| Release | : 2014-03-18 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1466860146 |
Ellen Prentiss's papa said she was born with saltwater in her veins, so he gave her sailing lessons and taught her how to navigate. As soon as she met a man who loved sailing like she did, she married him. When her husband was given command of a clipper ship custom-made to travel quickly, she knew that they would need every bit of its speed for their maiden voyage: out of New York City, down around the tip of Cape Horn, and into San Francisco, where the Gold Rush was well under way. In a time when few women even accompanied their husbands onboard, Ellen Prentiss navigated their ship to set the world record for speed along that route. A Margaret Ferguson Book
| Author | : Emily Arnold McCully |
| Publisher | : Hyperion |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2008-07-15 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 9781423100287 |
Alice Cogswell was a bright and curious child and a quick learner. She also couldn't hear. And, unfortunately, in the early nineteenth century in America, there was no way to teach deaf children. One day, though, an equally curious young man named Thomas Gallaudet, Alice's neighbor, senses Alice's intelligence and agrees to find a way to teach her. Gallaudet's interest in young Alice carries him across the ocean and back and eventually inspires him to create the nation's first school for the deaf, thus improving young Alice's life and the lives of generations of young, deaf students to come./DIVDIV
| Author | : Sandra Dallas |
| Publisher | : St. Martin's Griffin |
| Total Pages | : 286 |
| Release | : 2007-04-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1429903376 |
May Anna Kovacks was discovered on the dustry streets of Butte, Montana and went on to become a Hollywood star. War, fame, marriage, love, and heartbreak came and went. What never changed was the bond she shared with her two best friends, Effa Commander and Whippy Bird. When scandal, murder, and betrayal made a legend of May Anna, only Effa and Whippy Bird could set the record straight.
| Author | : Emily Arnold McCully |
| Publisher | : Dial Books |
| Total Pages | : 40 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
A ten-year-old bobbin girl working in a textile mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1830s, must make a difficult decision--will she participate in the first workers' strike in Lowell?
