Alexander Graham Bell led a fascinating life. He was an immigrant, an inventor, a pioneering speech teacher, and a champion of educating the hearing impaired. Bell was raised by a mother who had nearly no hearing, married a deaf woman, and was lifelong friends with Helen Keller. Few people realize that Bell considered his work with the deaf the most important of his life. Quite a statement, considering Bell's inventions ranged from telephony and phonographs...

From Popsicles and swim fins to robots and glitter shooting prosthetics, KID-VENTORS, Kailei Pew's middle grade nonfiction debut, illustrated by Shannon Wright, is full of fun and inspiring stories about real kid inventors and some of their most amazing inventions.