Ellie, Engineer – serie

Ellie the Engineer is back in a third 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, EngineerEllie enters a pageant with her best friend Kit, which means lots of glitter, hairspray, and chances to make new friends. After all, Ellie has lots of engineering ideas to help the other girls with their talents, like building a light-up skateboard ramp for Kit! But one contestant, Kit''s not-so-nice pageant rival Melody, makes fun of Ellie''s tool belt and thinks engineering is messy. And when Melody''s rabbit--part of her magic act--goes missing, Ellie knows that she can build a contraption to catch him. But Melody''s comments have made Ellie start to doubt herself--what if a pageant isn''t a place for engineering?With Ellie''s designs and sketches throughout, and her fun guide to electricity and circuits in the back, the continuation of this delightful series will leave young readers laughing and inspired to create.

"Look out, Junie B. Jones! Ellie the engineer is thinking, making, creating, and showing enthusiasm and brilliance with her creations!" -School Library ConnectionA charming, hilarious illustrated middle grade about a girl who is an engineer--no, not the kind on a train, the kind that builds things! Perfect creative, STEM-powered fun for girls who have interests in how things work.Ellie is an engineer. With a tool belt strapped over her favorite skirt (who says you can''t wear a dress and have two kinds of screwdrivers handy, just in case?), she invents and builds amazing creations in her backyard workshop. Together with her best friend Kit, Ellie can make anything. As Kit''s birthday nears, Ellie doesn''t know what gift to make until the girls overhear Kit''s mom talking about her present--the dog Kit always wanted! Ellie plans to make an amazing doghouse, but her plans grow so elaborate that she has to enlist help from the neighbor boys and crafty girls, even though the two groups don''t get along. Will Ellie be able to pull off her biggest project yet, all while keeping a secret from Kit? Illustrated with Ellie''s sketches and plans, and including backmatter with a fun how-to guide to tools, this is a STEM- and friendship-powered story full of fun!