Nick and Tesla's Solar-Powered Showdown

Name: Nick and Tesla's Solar-Powered Showdown
Brand: Simon & Schuster NZ
SKU: 9781594748660
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A Mystery with Sun-Powered Gadgets You Can Build Yourself

By Steve Hockensmith and Bob Pflugfelder

Series: Nick and Tesla

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Summary

Nick and Tesla's Solar-Powered Showdown follows young inventors Nick and Tesla Holt as they tackle their biggest mystery yet: the disappearance of their parents. To outsmart a criminal mastermind, the resourceful twins enlist the help of their quirky Uncle Newt and devise clever solar-powered gadgets. This thrilling adventure features DIY projects including a solar-powered hot-dog cooker, alarm, secret listening device, model car, and a signal cannon firing glowing ping-pong balls.
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Another fast-paced mystery in the popular Nick and Tesla series, featuring a new case to crack and all-new gadgets that kids can build themselves!

Another fast-paced mystery in the popular Nick and Tesla series, featuring a new case to crack and all-new gadgets that kids can build themselves!

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Another fast-paced mystery in the popular Nick and Tesla series, featuring a new case to crack and all-new gadgets that kids can build themselves!

Kid inventors Nick and Tesla Holt have outsmarted crooks, spies, and kidnappers. Now they have to crack their biggest mystery yet—where the heck are their parents? To outwit the criminal mastermind who's holding their parents hostage, the twins will need all their brainpower, the help of their eccentric Uncle Newt, and an assortment of homemade solar gadgets. Will the Holt family be reunited at last? Or will a hijacked solar satellite beam down doom from the skies?

The adventure includes instructions for creating a solar-powered hot-dog cooker, alarm, secret listening device, and model car, plus a nighttime signal cannon that fires illuminated ping-pong balls.

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Nick and Tesla's Solar-Powered Showdown

Another fast-paced mystery in the popular Nick and Tesla series, featuring a new case to crack and all-new gadgets that kids can build themselves! Kid inventors Nick and Tesla Holt have outsmarted crooks, spies, and kidnappers. Now they have to crack their biggest mystery yet—where the heck are their parents? To outwit the criminal mastermind who's holding their parents hostage,...

By Steve Hockensmith and Bob Pflugfelder

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781594748660

Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 10 May 2016

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Quirk Books

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 23.0mm

Width: 135.0mm

Height: 185.0mm

Weight: 395g

Pages: 264

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Bob Pflugfelder Children's Books Children's Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Series: Nick and Tesla Steve Hockensmith Young Adult

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