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Phineas L. Macguire ...Erupts! - (From the Highly Scientific Notebooks of Phineas L. Macguire) by Frances O'Roark Dowell (Paperback)

Phineas L. Macguire ...Erupts! - (From the Highly Scientific Notebooks of Phineas L. Macguire) by  Frances O'Roark Dowell (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Boy-scientist extraordinaire Phineas L. MacGuire is allergic to purple, an expert on mold, and has an un-best friend instead of a best friend. Disaster strikes when his teacher pairs Mac and his un-best friend together for a science fair project.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Here's what you need to know about Phineas L. MacGuire, boy-scientist extraordinaire, aka Mac: </b> <p/> 1. He's allergic to purple, telephone calls, and girls, and can prove it. <p/> 2. He's probably the world's expert on mold, including which has the highest stink potential. <p/> 3. He does not have a best friend. He does, however, have an un-best friend, who he does not -- repeat, <i>not</i> -- want to upgrade to best friend status. <p/> But disaster strikes when his teacher pairs Mac and his un-best friend together for the upcoming science fair. Worse, this un-best friend wants the project to be on dinosaurs, which is so third grade. Worse still, it seems as though everyone else in his class finds the un-best friend as unlikeable as Mac does. But, being a boy-scientist, once Mac notices this, he just might have to do some investigating....<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Frances O'Roark Dowell is the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of <i>Dovey Coe</i>, which won the Edgar Award and the William Allen White Award; <i>Where I'd Like to Be</i>; <i>The Secret Language of Girls</i> and its sequels <i>The Kind of Friends We Used to Be</i> and <i>The Sound of Your Voice, Only Really Far Away</i>; <i>Chicken Boy</i>; <i>Shooting the Moon</i>, which was awarded the Christopher Award; the Phineas L. MacGuire series; <i>Falling In</i>; <i>The Second Life of Abigail Walker</i>, which received three starred reviews; <i>Anybody Shining;</i> <i>Ten Miles Past Normal</i>; <i>Trouble the Water</i>; the Sam the Man series; <i>The Class</i>; <i>How to Build a Story</i>; and, most recently, <i>Hazard</i>. She lives with her family in Durham, North Carolina. Connect with Frances online at FrancesDowell.com. <p/>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.

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