Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty

Rosie may seem quiet and shy during the day, but at night, hidden away up in her attic, she's a brilliant inventor of gizmos and gadgets who dreams of becoming a great engineer. Then her great-great-aunt Rose (Rosie the Riveter) comes for a visit and mentions her one unfinished goal: to fly. So Rosie sets to work building a contraption to make her aunt's dream come true. But when her contraption doesn't fly but rather hovers for a moment and then crashes, Rosie deems the invention a failure. On the contrary, Aunt Rose inisists that Rosie's contraption was a raging success. You can only truly fail, she explains, if you quit. Great story to encourage creative thinking and perseverance.

Published by Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2013, pp. 32.

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