Books like Tesla's attic by Neal Shusterman

A 1996 New York high‑school friendship takes an unexpected turn when a free AOL CD transports two best friends fifteen years into their own future through a fictional early‑Facebook interface, forcing them to confront how present choices shape their tomorrow.

Eighteen‑year‑old Marguerite risks everything to expose a corrupt corporation that nearly killed her father, while attempting to rescue the boy she loves whose soul is trapped in multiple dimensions.

In a world of soaring airships and hidden treasure, student Matt Cruse and heiress Kate de Vries join a gypsy and a daring captain to uncover a lost dirigible and its legendary riches.

A daring dachshund, a boy inventor, and a genius family of automatons team up with Nikola Tesla to battle sky pirates, travel across Europe in a giant mechanical spider, and thwart the evil Mesmers.

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At fourteen, Nick Gautier’s ordinary life is turned upside down when he is rescued by a fierce warrior and pulled into the world of Dark-Hunters, fighting vampires, werewolves, zombies, and a demon—all while navigating high‑school drama.

Nick discovers Tesla’s mysterious attic items are parts of a Far‑Range Energy Emitter that can transmit free energy worldwide, and must track down missing components to prevent a powerful, global device in the hands of those who need it most.

In The Alchemy of Us, scientist and science writer Ainissa Ramirez examines eight inventions—clocks, steel rails, copper communication cables, photographic film, light bulbs, hard disks, scientific labware, and silicon chips—and reveals how they shaped the human experience. Ramirez tells the stories of the woman who sold time, the inventor who inspired Edison, and the hotheaded undertaker whose invention pointed the way to the computer. She describes, among other things, how our pursuit of precision in timepieces changed how we sleep; how the railroad helped commercialize Christmas; how the necessary brevity of the telegram influenced Hemingway's writing style; and how a young chemist exposed the use of Polaroid's cameras to create passbooks to track black citizens in apartheid South Africa. These fascinating and inspiring stories offer new perspectives on our relationships with technologies. Ramirez shows not only how materials were shaped by inventors but also how those materials shaped culture, chronicling each invention and its consequences—intended and unintended. Filling in the gaps left by other books about technology, Ramirez showcases little-known inventors—particularly people of color and women—who had a significant impact but whose accomplishments have been hidden by mythmaking, bias, and convention. Doing so, she shows us the power of telling inclusive stories about technology. She also shows that innovation is universal—whether it's splicing beats with two turntables and a microphone or splicing genes with two test tubes and CRISPR.

Electrician Mick Vincent is searching for a pressure plate for his 1936 Buick Roadmaster ; he finds it, but also finds a diary belonging to electronics genius Nikola Tesla. What was Nikola Tesla doing in New South Wales in 1925? The United States Department of National Security would be interested in knowing, too, and Mick's life is in danger.

Ada Sibelius grows up with her brilliant single father, computer scientist David, in 1980s Boston. When he falls ill, her quest to uncover his hidden past leads her into a virtual world that reshapes her life.

A juvenile biography that follows the friendship and collaboration between Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, showing how Edison's mentorship sparked Ford’s innovation, culminating in the affordable Model T.

When a vital scanner is lost, 12‑year‑old Tate and his sister Christina flee to a hidden safehouse, where they uncover clues that the planet is under threat from the parasitic Sicarii, an extraterrestrial race with a centuries‑old history on Earth.

Young Michael Malone teams with the UNICORNE agency to trace a dragon scale tied to his missing father, uncovering alternate realities and a secret society while questioning trust and truth.