Phineas L. Macguire - Blasts Off!

Informationen zum Autor Frances O’Roark Dowell is the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of Dovey Coe, which won the Edgar Award and the William Allen White Award; Where I’d Like to Be; The Secret Language of Girls and its sequels The Kind of Friends We Used to Be and The Sound of Your Voice, Only Really Far Away; Chicken Boy; Shooting the Moon, which was awarded the Christopher Award; the Phineas L. MacGuire series; Falling In; The Second Life of Abigail Walker, which received three starred reviews; Anybody Shining; Ten Miles Past Normal; Trouble the Water; the Sam the Man series; The Class; How to Build a Story; and most recently, Hazard. She lives with her family in Durham, North Carolina. Connect with Frances online at FrancesDowell.com.Preston McDaniels is the illustrator of the Phineas L. MacGuire series and Cynthia Rylant’s Lighthouse Family series. He lives in Aurora, Nebraska, with his wife and two daughters. Klappentext Houston! we have a problem! Phineas L. MacGuire (a.k.a. Mac) has a lot to learn about outer space if he's going to be the best scientist in the fourth grade. To get the knowledge he needs! Mac is determined to go to space camp! but his mom says he has to earn the money himself. Houston! we have another problem: a gigantic! slobbery dog named Lemon Drop. Mac can earn the money he needs by walking Mrs. McClosky's yellow Lab--but how will he survive the walks? Good thing Mac is a scientific genius with friends like Ben and Aretha. Together the three of them discover that Lemon Drop is no ordinary dog--in fact! the pup is a real-life "Lab"oratory. Zusammenfassung Houston! we have a problem! Phineas L. MacGuire (a.k.a. Mac) has a lot to learn about outer space if he’s going to be the best scientist in the fourth grade. To get the knowledge he needs! Mac is determined to go to space camp! but his mom says he has to earn the money himself. Houston! we have another problem: a gigantic! slobbery dog named Lemon Drop. Mac can earn the money he needs by walking Mrs. McClosky’s yellow Lab—but how will he survive the walks? Good thing Mac is a scientific genius with friends like Ben and Aretha. Together the three of them discover that Lemon Drop is no ordinary dog—in fact! the pup is a real-life “Lab”oratory. ...

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• Authors: Frances O&apos Dowell, Frances O. Dowell, Frances O'Roark Dowell, Frances O'Roark/ McDaniels Dowell, Dowell Frances O'Roark, Preston McDaniels, Preston (ILT) Roark/ McDaniels
• Assisted by: Preston McDaniels (Illustration), McDaniels Preston (Illustration)
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster USA
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 8 to 12
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.06.2011
• EAN: 9781442422049
• ISBN: 978-1-4424-2204-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Phineas L. Macguire...; From the Highly Scientific Notebooks of Phineas L. MacGuire; From the Highly Scientific Notebooks of Phineas L. MacGuire; From the Highly Scientific Not
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books; JUVENILE FICTION / Humorous Stories, JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Friendship, Humorous stories (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Humorous stories, JUVENILE FICTION / Technology / General