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    Ellie, Engineer: The Next Level
    Ellie, Engineer: The Next Level
    Ellie, Engineer: The Next Level
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    Ellie, Engineer: The Next Level

    By Jackson Pearce

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    Ellie the Engineer is back in another charming, hilarious, illustrated story filled with creative, STEM-powered fun!

     "Look out, Junie B. Jones! Ellie the engineer is thinking, making, creating, and showing enthusiasm and brilliance with her creations!" -School Library Connection on Ellie, Engineer

    After Ellie's first elevator build goes terribly wrong, her parents decide her "punishment" is to assist an elderly neighbor, Mrs. Curran, around the house. Ellie and her friends Kit and Toby are really only supposed to help with little things, but Ellie can't turn down the opportunity to use her engineering skills here and there where she sees a need--because that's what engineers do! It's no fun, though, when Mrs. Curran always gives Toby the credit for all the ingenious projects, and acts like Kit and Ellie were just helping him. . . . Can Ellie come up with another great build to elevate Mrs. Curran's ideas about this girl engineer?

    With Ellie's designs and sketches throughout, and her fun guide to simple machines in the back, the continuation of this delightful series will leave young readers laughing and inspired to create.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
    Release dateNov 6, 2018
    ISBN9781681195223
    Ellie, Engineer: The Next Level
    Author

    Jackson Pearce

    If Jackson Pearce had three wishes, she would wish for wisdom, patience, and for life to be a little more like a musical. She began writing when the school librarian told her there weren't any books that contained a smart girl, horses, baby animals, and magic. Her solution was to write the book herself. Jackson currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with a slightly cross-eyed cat and a lot of secondhand furniture.

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    • 5/5
      Ellie is a smart, young girl who likes "boy stuff" and "girl stuff". She likes to build and create things, play soccer, get dirty, wear pretty skirts (with her tool belt, of course), and have tea parties with her best friend, Kit. Ellie has a notebook where she keeps track of all her projects including the water balloon launcher (which was a hit) and the French Braider (which was not a hit). Ellie likes to draw out her ideas first in her notepad and use materials found in her workshop or parents' garage (of course, always getting permission first). Her workshop is part of her swingset and holds all her favorite tools.Ellie and Kit are excited about Kit's upcoming birthday tea party when they overhear (thanks to one of Ellie's contraptions) about Kit's present. That gives Ellie the perfect gift idea. But, she isn't sure she can pull it off by herself and keep it a secret from Kit at the same time. She enlists some help from some friends but the secrets get to be too much and instead of having fun, everyone gets mad. The day of the party arrives and Ellie decides to ask for everyone's forgiveness and to pitch in to finish the project.I absolutely love this creative and fun story of Ellie and her friends. She is a bright girl with lots of ideas and will be inspiring to girls to create their own ideas. She teaches that it is ok to be friends with boys and girls and like all kinds of things. There are drawing in the book of Ellie's ideas and both in the beginning stages and finished. Ellie has some misses and that is important for kids to realize it is okay to make mistakes and keep trying.This chapter book is the perfect level for middle-grade readers. There are lots of little problems to solve and silly things that happen to keep kids interested. There are also friendship dilemmas that offer lessons for kids when dealing with their own issues. I think Pearce has created a wonderful concept for a series and it is one I could see girls and boys enjoying!
    • 5/5
      Ellie loves to solve problems by building solutions. For instance, when the neighborhood boys won’t let Ellie and her friend Kit join in their soccer game, she designs and builds a water balloon launcher and soaks them! When she hears that Kit’s mom is going to get Kit a dog for her birthday she decides to build her a dog house for her birthday present. It’s going to be her biggest project yet and will require help from a lot of other kids. Can she keep this project a secret from her very best friend until Kit’s birthday party?This book incorporated a STEM aspect into it without hitting the reader over the head with it or getting too technical for the intended age group – two through fourth grade. Ellie loves projects but she’s a well-rounded kid with tons of personality. She likes tea parties too. I liked that before she started a project, she sketched it out and that the sketch was included in the book. That’s really helpful for readers like me that have trouble picturing those types of things in their heads. I’ve never seen a home-made French braider before! There is also a handy dandy illustrated glossary of tools at the end. I think this book will appeal to girls and boys alike, no matter how handy they themselves actually are. It’s a great story that shows that girls can be into more than just dolls and tea parties. Highly recommended.

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    Ellie, Engineer - Jackson Pearce

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    Contents

    Chapter One

    Chapter Two

    Chapter Three

    Chapter Four

    Chapter Five

    Chapter Six

    Chapter Seven

    Chapter Eight

    Chapter Nine

    Chapter Ten

    Chapter Eleven

    Chapter Twelve

    Chapter Thirteen

    Chapter Fourteen

    Chapter Fifteen

    Pulley

    Wheel and Axle

    Lever

    Wedge

    Incline Plane

    Screw

    Ellie Bell was building something new.

    This wasn’t weird or anything, because Ellie was basically always building something new. It was pretty much her favorite thing to do, especially during the summer: come up with a new project, design it, then build it with her friends Kit and Toby.

    What was weird about this particular something new was the fact that it involved twenty-four jars of bread-and-butter pickles.

    Does it still look flat to you? Ellie called out to Toby. Toby was in Ellie’s playhouse, which doubled as her workshop—it was full of tools and bits of wood and loose screws she’d collected in peanut butter jars. Right now, Toby was staring out the playhouse window, narrowing his eyes at the scuffed-up tabletop they’d found in someone’s trash a few days ago. Kit didn’t like it so much when Ellie got excited about something from the trash—Kit was a very tidy person—but Ellie knew sometimes people threw away really, really useful stuff.

    The tabletop had two ropes—one on each end—that were knotted together in the middle. Right now, it was hovering just an inch or so off the ground, so Ellie could make sure it stayed nice and flat in the air.

    It looks flat to me, Toby called back down, putting his hands around his mouth to make his voice louder.

    What about from there? Ellie asked Kit, who was standing on the porch, looking at the tabletop through pink binoculars, even though she wasn’t really that far away from the workshop. Kit was wearing a T-shirt that had a dog wearing heart-shaped sunglasses on it. Ellie was wearing the same one—they’d decided the T-shirts were lucky, since whenever they were wearing them, they built something really good, or the ice-cream truck came around the neighborhood, or they wrote a really funny joke together.

    We’re go for flat! Kit answered, waving a thumbs-up in the air.

    Great! Ellie said. She climbed the ladder up to her workshop and nudged Toby over a little bit. Right by the door, there was a chain from Toby’s old swing set. It went out the playhouse door and to a piece of the workshop roof, where Ellie had it looped around a back wheel from her old tricycle—one without the tire—then down to the tabletop. The tricycle wheel with the rope made a pulley! Pulleys were machines, just very simple ones—but that didn’t make them any less cool, because they made it way easier to lift super-heavy things up into the air.

    Most elevators don’t use swing-set chains, Toby said, shaking his head. That’s what this build was—an elevator for the workshop. Once it was done, Ellie wouldn’t need to make a billion trips up and down the ladder to take things into her workshop. And it would be a way for people who couldn’t climb the ladder, like her grandma or Lacey from school (who had a glittery pink wheelchair), to get up into the workshop if they wanted to come visit.

    Well, most elevators are for much taller buildings, Ellie pointed out. "And they do use pulleys, like we’re using. Just lots of really giant pulleys instead of one made out of a tricycle wheel."

    Toby nodded, looking thoughtful. That’s true. I looked it up last night, and most elevators have to be inspected. Do you have an inspector coming? You can schedule an inspector on weekdays, according to the website I saw.

    Toby got like this now and then. People in class sometimes called him a know-it-all—Ellie, in fact, used to call him that a lot. She didn’t really anymore, though, because now she knew that Toby was just Toby, just like she was just Ellie and Kit was just Kit. It didn’t seem right to be friends with Toby but still call him a name behind his back, even if he did still make her sigh a little here and there.

    "Maybe you can be the inspector," Ellie suggested, taking hold of the chain.

    I do know a lot about elevators, now, Toby said, looking pleased. He folded his arms and pulled in his eyebrows, and Ellie had to admit, he did look very inspector-y.

    Perfect! Ellie said, then looked out the workshop door to Kit, who was watching birds through her binoculars. Keep an eye on it, Kit! Ellie yelled. "Ready? One, two, three!"

    On three, she pulled back on the chain. It slid through the tricycle-wheel-pulley and tightened all the way down to the tabletop. She pulled some more, and the tabletop began to rise off the ground, inching up toward the workshop. When it was level with the floor, Ellie stopped, then wrapped the chain around a high-heeled shoe she’d nailed to the floor (it made a handy doorstop and didn’t hurt your toes when you stepped on it barefoot).

    Woohoo! Kit cheered from below.

    Inspection part one, passed! Toby said, and high-fived Ellie. She grinned. Building projects were always better when Toby and Kit were with her.

    Are we ready for these? Kit asked, nudging a thick-sided cardboard box with her toe. It was stacked two rows high with glass jars of pickles that said In a Pickle in swirly writing on the side. They’d found the box and the pickles in Kit’s garage, and Ellie had done a little math: Each jar of pickles weighed two and a half pounds. She, Kit, and Toby all weighed about sixty pounds each. So, if the elevator was strong enough to lift twenty-four jars of pickles—which was every single jar—it could definitely lift a person. Ellie thought it was pretty lucky how quickly they’d found something to test the elevator with. Sometimes engineering just worked out like that!

    Sure, let’s do it! Ellie answered Kit’s question. Really, she knew they ought to test the elevator with one jar of pickles at

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