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Whoosh! Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions
by Chris Barton · illustrated by Don Tate
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Lonnie Johnson grew from a curious kid tinkering with junk into a NASA engineer who invented the Super Soaker by accident. An inspiring story about persistence and invention.
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