Description: For as long as he can remember, Michael Wilson has enjoyed tinkering with things, and now, along with his buddies Liv Hernandez, and Leo Hammer, he's formed the Mysterious Makers of Shaker Street. The Makers spend their free time making gadgets out of old equipment and everyday stuff. In between their inventing, the three friends notice their Shaker Street neighborhood is filled with suspicious characters. Can they stop their sinister neighbors with a new tool, a stop-action movie, or some other ingenious use of engineering and technology? Written to inspire readers to invent on their own, author Stacia Deutsch combines mystery, humor, and friendship to build a top-grade series.
Brief description: Stacia Deutsch is the author of the eight-book, award-winning, chapter book series Blast to the Past. Her resume includes Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, The Boxcar Children, and Mean Ghouls from Scholastic. Stacia has also written junior movie tie in novels for summer blockbuster films, including Batman, The Dark Knight and the New York Times Best Sellers: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and The Smurfs. In 2013, she earned her MFA from Western State where she currently teaches fiction writing.