Buzz dreams of going into outer space. One night, his dream comes true. With his dog, Raggs, by his side, he sneaks onto a spaceship. Together, Raggs and Buzz have an awesome outer space adventure.

"Sabrina Sue wants to fly like all the other birds she sees in the sky. Will her flying machine invention be what she needs, or will she find another way to soar?"--

When Rosie is unable to invent a contraption to help one of Aunt Rose's Raucous Riveters friends, she calls on classmates Iggy Peck and Ada Twist to help. Rosie is working with Aunt Rose and her friends, the Raucous Riveters, on designing a new invention, but when her designs keep failing, Rosie starts to lose hope until her friends Iggy and Ada offer some help

Describes how a scientist invents a machine that allows humans to communicate with animals, and how it changes the world as people use it to talk to different kinds of animals.

A daughter interrupts her father's work to ask him who invented things from paper to the sun to sadness, and the father tries to give her a reasonable answer in each case.

Ten-year-old Harold, the adopted son of a food inventor, discovers that his father's latest invention, soda pop that produces the world's longest burps, also generates furry creatures known as Fizzies.

When one of Chilly da Vinci's inventions separates a chunk of ice from his home iceberg, he must invent something quickly to get himself and the other penguins back home.

Seventeen-year-old Astrid Sullivan belongs to a family of compulsive gamblers, and now that her father has been laid off from his job in Detroit and lost all their money betting on the Titans, which are half-horse, half car, and race around impossible tracks, her family is falling apart--but when Astrid's new friends give her the chance to participate in this year's Titan races, she thinks she sees a way to win some money and keep her family together....

A young aspiring engineer must first conquer her fear of failure.

Professor Penrod sends Danny and Lin a mysterious package filled with biting, scratching microsaurs hungry enough to chew through walls, along with a very large microsaur egg.