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Atheneum Books for Young Readers, May 2007
Trade Paperback, 176 pages
ISBN-10: 1416947345
ISBN-13: 9781416947349
Grades: 3 - 7
Awards and Nominations
- California Young Reader Medal Nominee
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher Book Award Master List (VT)
- Georgia Children's Book Award Nominee
- Grand Canyon Reader Award Nominee (AZ)
- Land of Enchantment Children's Master List (NM)
- Maud Hart Lovelace Award Master List (MN)
- Nevada Young Reader's Award Nominee
- NYPL 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing
- Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award Nominee
- Sunshine State Young Reader's Award Master List (FL)
- Virginia Readers’ Choice Award Master List
- William Allen White Children's Book Award Master List (KS)
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Description
Here's what you need to know about Phineas L. MacGuire, boy-scientist extraordinaire, aka Mac:
1. He's allergic to purple, telephone calls, and girls, and can prove it.
2. He's probably the world's expert on mold, including which has the highest stink potential.
3. He does not have a best friend. He does, however, have an un-best friend, who he does not -- repeat, not -- want to upgrade to best friend status.
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....
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