PUBLISHER’S NOTE: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Snider, Brandon T., writer. | Steckley, Ed, illustrator.

Title: Rube Goldberg and his amazing machines written by Brandon T. Snider ; illustrated by Ed Steckley.

Description: New York : Amulet Books, [2021] | Audience: Ages 8 to 12 Summary: When on the first day of middle school Principal Kim announces a Contraption Convention, young inventor Rube Goldberg must conquer his anxieties and a ghostly mystery to come up with something brilliant for the judges and his friends.

Identifiers: LCCN 2021017473 | ISBN 9781419750045 (hardcover)

ISBN 9781647000929 (ebook)

Subjects: CYAC: Goldberg, Rube, 1883-1970—Fiction. | Inventions—Fiction.

Middle schools—Fiction. | Schools—Fiction. | Mystery and detective stories.

BISAC: JUVENILE FICTION / Technology / General

JUVENILE FICTION / Mysteries & Detective Stories

Classification: LCC PZ7.S6798 Ru 2021 | DDC [Fic]—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021017473

Text © 2021 Heirs of Rube Goldberg

Illustrations by Ed Steckley

Book design by Brenda E. Angelilli

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