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Most people can't imagine a car without windshield wipers. How would you possibly see during a snow storm or downpour? But there was a time when drivers had to wipe the windshield themselves to clear it of snow and rain. And boy did they get wet! Find out how Mary Anderson's smart thinking helped her get a patent for the Windshield Cleaning Device.

Paperback:

9781464403491 | Enslow Elementary, January 1, 2014, cover price $10.53

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9780766042032 | Enslow Elementary, January 1, 2014, cover price $25.27 | About this edition: Most people can't imagine a car without windshield wipers.

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Product Description: Tundra's Great Idea Series are early-reader biographies. 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...read more
By David Parkins (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9781770492394 | Tundra Books, October 11, 2011, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Tundra’s Great Idea Series is comprised of biographies of inventors for early readers.

Paperback:

9781770495159 | Reprint edition (Tundra Books, August 6, 2013), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Tundra's Great Idea Series are early-reader biographies.

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Ten biographies of American women inventors, including Madam C.J. Walker, Lillian Gilbreth, Beulah Henry, Elizabeth Lee Hazen, Rachel Fuller Brown, Katherine Blodgett, Gertrude B. Elion, Stephanie Louise Kwolek, Edith Flanigen, and Ellen Ochoa.

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9780766019133 | Enslow Pub Inc, February 1, 2004, cover price $27.94 | About this edition: Profiles geologist Florence Bascom, geneticist Barbara McClintock, computer pioneer Admiral Grace Hopper, environmentalist Rachel Carson, Nobel prize-winning physicist Rosalind Yalow, and other twentieth-century American scientists.

Wanting to prove her bravery to the boys, Sacagawea is upset when she is left behind on the hunt, yet while gathering wood with her grandmother, she encounters a rattlesnake and is given the chance to prove her bravery to all.

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9780689848032 | Simon Spotlight, September 1, 2002, cover price $3.99 | About this edition: Wanting to prove her bravery to the boys, Sacagawea is upset when she is left behind on the hunt, yet while gathering wood with her grandmother, an encounter with a rattlesnake proves her courage and earns her the respect she has longed to have.

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9780689851452 | Aladdin Paperbacks, September 1, 2002, cover price $11.89 | About this edition: Wanting to prove her bravery to the boys, Sacagawea is upset when she is left behind on the hunt, yet while gathering wood with her grandmother, an encounter with a rattlesnake proves her courage and earns her the respect she has longed to have.

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9780606254052 | Demco Media, December 1, 2002, cover price $12.50 | About this edition: Wanting to prove her bravery to the boys, Sacagawea is upset when she is left behind on the hunt, yet while gathering wood with her grandmother, she encounters a rattlesnake and is given the chance to prove her bravery to all.

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9780613575829 | Turtleback Books, March 1, 2002, cover price $13.55 | About this edition: Wanting to prove her bravery to the boys, Sacagawea is upset when she is left behind on the hunt, yet while gathering wood with her grandmother, she encounters a rattlesnake and is given the chance to prove her bravery to all.

Tells the story of how women throughout the ages have responded to situations confronting them in daily life by inventing such items as correction fluid, space helmets, and disposable diapers.

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9780606245401 | Demco Media, September 1, 2002, cover price $15.77 | About this edition: Tells the story of how women throughout the ages have responded to situations confronting them in daily life by inventing such items as correction fluid, space helmets, and disposable diapers.

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Tells the story of how women throughout the ages have responded to situations confronting them in daily life by inventing such items as correction fluid, space helmets, and disposable diapers.

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9780618195633 | Reprint edition (Houghton Mifflin, March 11, 2002), cover price $8.99 | About this edition: Tells the story of how women throughout the ages have responded to situations confronting them in daily life by inventing such items as correction fluid, space helmets, and disposable diapers.

Miscellaneous:

9780547350523 | Houghton Mifflin, March 11, 2002, cover price $7.99

School and Library:

9780395937440 | Houghton Mifflin, April 24, 2000, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Provides stories of how women throughout the ages have responded to situations confronting them in daily life by inventing such items as diapers, paper bags

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9780613606769 | Turtleback Books, July 1, 2003, cover price $18.40 | About this edition: Tells the story of how women throughout the ages have responded to situations confronting them in daily life by inventing such items as correction fluid, space helmets, and disposable diapers.

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By Melissa Sweet (illustrator)

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9789990085327 | Houghton Mifflin, April 1, 2000, cover price $0.02

Prebinding:

9781439527191 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, August 11, 2008), cover price $15.95

Each volume presents brief accounts of five women and their inventions, including Sybilla Masters, Madam C. J. Walker, Mary Anderson, and Nancy Perkins

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9781560652748 | Capstone Pr Inc, July 1, 1996, cover price $23.93 | About this edition: Each volume presents brief accounts of five women and their inventions, including Sybilla Masters, Madam C.

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Each volume presents brief accounts of five women and their inventions, including Sybilla Masters, Madam C. J. Walker, Mary Anderson, and Nancy Perkins

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9781560652762 | Capstone Pr Inc, January 1, 1996, cover price $23.93 | About this edition: Each volume presents brief accounts of five women and their inventions, including Sybilla Masters, Madam C.

Each volume presents brief accounts of five women and their inventions, including Sybilla Masters, Madam C. J. Walker, Mary Anderson, and Nancy Perkins

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9781560652755 | Capstone Pr Inc, January 1, 1996, cover price $23.93 | About this edition: Each volume presents brief accounts of five women and their inventions, including Sybilla Masters, Madam C.

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Each volume presents brief accounts of five women and their inventions, including Sybilla Masters, Madam C. J. Walker, Mary Anderson, and Nancy Perkins

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9781560652779 | Capstone Pr Inc, January 1, 1996, cover price $23.93 | About this edition: Each volume presents brief accounts of five women and their inventions, including Sybilla Masters, Madam C.

Examines twenty young female inventors and their creations, from Jennifer Donabar and her electric lock to Jeanie Low and her kiddie stool. (view table of contents)

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9780915793891 | Free Spirit Pub, September 1, 1995, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Examines twenty young female inventors and their creations, from Jennifer Donabar and her electric lock to Jeanie Low and her kiddie stool.

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Surveys the lives and work of such innovative women as Grace Hopper, Fannie Farmer, C. J. Walker, and Stephanie Kwolek

Hardcover:

9781881508069 | Oliver Pr Inc, March 1, 1993, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Surveys the lives and work of such innovative women as Grace Hopper, Fannie Farmer, C.

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