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Back in Time with Thomas Edison (Qwerty Stevens #1)
by
Dan Gutman
Robert Edwards Stevens, nicknamed "Qwerty," likes digging in his backyard when he's in a bad mood. He doesn't dig for anything special -- he just digs to get his mind off things. One day, when he's really angry and has a lot on his mind, he starts digging...and THUNK! He hits something, a wooden box with a famous signature:
Thomas A. Edison
Is this a phonograph created
...morePaperback, 208 pages
Published
December 1st 2002
by Aladdin
(first published July 1st 2001)
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I chose this book because the title was interesting and the picture on the front cover of the book seemed interesting. The plot of this book is that this boy like got mad at his mother for screaming at him and so when he gets mad or depressed he goes and digs holes, so when he dug up a hole in his back yard he found an old box. He took it to his room and opened it. He found out that it was an invention of Thomas Edison from several years ago. He connected it to his computer and when he pressed o...more
Qwerty and his sister found the machine that Edison made and they will go back in time.
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Pretty average, easy-to-read story about a boy who finds a time travel box, purportedly engineered by Thomas Edison. Boy and sis find themselves back in Edison's time, and Gutman brings forth quite a bit of knowledge about Edison and his team of inventors. I thought that the teenage sister having a suitor was a bit creepy, but it did lead to a couple of funny moments showing how different language has become from the 19th century.
This would be a good read for 5th or 6th graders interested in Edi...more
This would be a good read for 5th or 6th graders interested in Edi...more
I read this in order to assess this book so I could get my kids to read it. It was a good book for any kid who likes science, time travel, building things, or the movie "Back to the Future"
A nice semi-short book. This book is very confusing to comprehend when Qwerty returns from 1889.
Another short book gotten for my son but sucked me in while I was "evaluating" it.
IT STINKS! IT IS AWFUL! QWERTY IS NOT A CREATIVE NAME. AT ALL!!!!!!!!! LITTERLY!!!!!!!!!!
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It is very interesting and very attractive,I really enjoy to read this book.It was liked a magnet,I couldn't put it down after I had started reading. I had read it twice before I returned it to the school library.
Jun 25, 2009
Dottibug
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this book brings back time it seems like.
This book is one of the greatest books I have ever read and learnt about Thomas Edison.
cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jun 14, 2013
Anna
marked it as to-read
Mar 20, 2013
Man Solo
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The author of over 80 books in a little over a decade of writing, Dan Gutman has written on topics from computers to baseball. Beginning his freelance career as a nonfiction author dealing mostly with sports for adults and young readers, Gutman has concentrated on juvenile fiction since 1995. His most popular titles include the time-travel sports book Honus and Me and its sequels, and a clutch of...more
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