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Day 4 of Summer Goal 2019: The Inventors at No.8

6/23/2019

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Slide 1: Hi. My name is Kate Narita, and this is day four of my summer 2019 #bookaday challenge. Today I will be talking about The Inventors at No. 8 by A.M. Morgen.
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Slide 2: Just like book three in the #bookaday challenge, I obtained my copy of The Inventors at No. 8 from the Cooperative Children's Book Center. It's located in Madison, WI, and anyone can go there and get books for free which is pretty cool.
Slide 3: One thing that surprised me when I read the back of The Inventors at No. 8 is that there's a main character, George (that wasn't surprising), but they also talk about Ada Byron and Ada Byron lived in real life. But yet she's fictionalized in this book The Inventors at No. 8. If you're going to hand this book to your students to read, make sure you have a copy of Ada Byron Lovelace and the Thinking Machine. It's a fantastic picture book biography about Ada Byron, and it talks about how Ada Byron was the first person to write a computer program. Before you read the fictionalizd version of Ada Byron in The Inventors at No. 8, I think students should know who she really was.
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Slide 4: Now we get to The Inventors at No. 8. This is a super fun book. It will appeal to your students who like STEM,  who like coding, who like mysteries or if they just like to read books that feature jolly pirates. I definitely recommend it. It's a ton of fun, and it will definitely have your readers asking for more.
Slide 5: Of course they could read The Mysterious Benedict Society because readers who like the mystery in The Inventors at No. 8 will also like the mystery in The Mysterious Benedict Society.
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Slide 6: There's definitely a bit of steampunk in The Inventors at No. 8 and Carmer and Grit by Sarah Jean Horwitz also has steampunk elements. Carmer and Grit doesn't have pirates like The Inventors at No. 8, but it does have faeries which is pretty cool.

Slide 7: Finally, if your students just can't wait for the next book, they're in luck because the next book is already out-The Inventors and the Lost Island. This is definitely a fun addition to your elementary classroom library. I hope you'll check it out.
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