Author: Daniel Warvelle Harbaugh
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1312467878
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 55
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Book Description
This book features the cover art of the original 40 books Tom Swift series commencing in 1910. The Tom Swift books have been credited with laying the foundations for success of American science fiction by focusing on brilliant scientists and inventors. Tom Swift's adventures have been popular since inception in 1910: by 1914, 150,000 copies a year were being sold. As of 2009, Tom Swift books have sold over 30 million copies worldwide.
Author: Victor Appleton
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775412873
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 237
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Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle is the first book in the original Tom Swift series. "Every boy possesses some form of inventive genius. Tom Swift is a bright, ingenious boy and his inventions and adventures make the most interesting kind of reading." "These spirited tales convey in a realistic way, the wonderful advances in land and sea locomotion and other successful inventions. Stories like these are impressed upon the memory and their reading is productive only of good." This series of adventure novels starring the genius boy inventor Tom Swift falls into the genre of "invention fiction" or "Edisonade".
Author: Victor Appleton
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439103712
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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ROBOTS + TERRORISTS = TROUBLE FOR TOM Tom's been training his entry, SwiftBot, for the upcoming Robot Olympics -- a major event being sponsored by the White House's Office of Science and Technology. Teenage inventors from around the country will be bringing their homemade robots to compete in a series of athletic competitions. The Road Back, an antiscience terrorist group, has issued a statement condemning the event, and Tom hopes that the tight security at the Robot Olympics will keep TRB from causing trouble. But no such luck. Someone is playing dirty . . . and things are going to get dangerous.
Author: Victor Appleton
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439103690
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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TOM IS IN DEEP-SEA TROUBLE... Tom. Bud, and Yo are on the S.S. Nestor, a Swift Enterprises research vessel, to witness Mr. Swift testing his submersible, the Verne-1. Mr. Swift plans to use the Verne-1 to place a network of seismometers on the sea floor to detect underwater earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and other phenomena that might generate tidal waves on the ocean's surface. But when an unexpected storm hits and the S.S. Nestor looses contact with the Verne-1, it's up to Tom to save his father.
Author: Victor Appleton
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
ISBN:
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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Author: Victor Appleton (II.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Tom Swift, Jr., and his friend, Bud Barclay, enter an international space race hoping to orbit the earth in two hours.
Author: Victor Ii Appleton
Publisher: 1st World Publishing
ISBN: 1421825058
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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Tom Swift, Jr., and his friend, Bud Barclay, try to recover a missile, which was mysteriously thrown off course, containing valuable data from Jupiter.
Author: Victor Appleton
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775413063
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Book Description
Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders is the 20th book in the original Tom Swift series. "Every boy possesses some form of inventive genius. Tom Swift is a bright, ingenious boy and his inventions and adventures make the most interesting kind of reading." "These spirited tales convey in a realistic way, the wonderful advances in land and sea locomotion and other successful inventions. Stories like these are impressed upon the memory and their reading is productive only of good." This series of adventure novels starring the genius boy inventor Tom Swift falls into the genre of "invention fiction" or "Edisonade".
Author: Victor Appleton
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416936432
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166
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When Tom heads to Mount Everest to test out his latest invention, he has difficulty focusing because of a nasty bunch of hunters who want to capture a yeti at any cost, while Tom vows to protect the environment and any species in it.
Author: Victor Appleton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Tom Swift is approached by the owner of a circus to use one of his airships to search for a lost hunter, who went missing somewhere in South Africa while searching for a tribe of giants.
