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Cover of Whoosh! Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions

Lonnie Johnson grew from a curious kid tinkering with junk into a NASA engineer who invented the Super Soaker by accident. An inspiring story about persistence and invention.

Grade: 1st to 5th grade

Find more: STEM, Black History Month

ISBN: 9781580892971

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