Phineas L. MacGuire . . . Gets Slimed!
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Illustrated by: Preston McDaniels
For Ages: 8 - 12
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Phineas L. MacGuire (a.k.a. Mac) has three goals for fourth grade:
1. To be the best fourth-grade scientist ever.
2. To be the best fourth-grade scientist ever.
3. To be the best fourth-grade scientist ever.
It's a tall order, but he's confident that he can achieve it, especially since his friend and rival scientist, Aretha, has asked him to help her earn a scout badge by creating the mold that produces penicillin. After all, who knows more about mold than Mac? And how many fourth graders can say that they've reproduced penicillin? None, as far as Mac knows. But then he has to manage Ben's campaign for class president and deal with his new babysitter, Sarah Fortemeyer, the Teenage Girl Space Alien from the Planet Pink who accidentally got rid of his dried worm collection and now he has to find it. How is he supposed to find time to focus on mold?
The second book about Phineas L. MacGuire and his scientific experiments, Phineas L. MacGuire...Gets Slimed!, is as much fun as the first, and includes slimy new experiments that you can do at home!
1. To be the best fourth-grade scientist ever.
2. To be the best fourth-grade scientist ever.
3. To be the best fourth-grade scientist ever.
It's a tall order, but he's confident that he can achieve it, especially since his friend and rival scientist, Aretha, has asked him to help her earn a scout badge by creating the mold that produces penicillin. After all, who knows more about mold than Mac? And how many fourth graders can say that they've reproduced penicillin? None, as far as Mac knows. But then he has to manage Ben's campaign for class president and deal with his new babysitter, Sarah Fortemeyer, the Teenage Girl Space Alien from the Planet Pink who accidentally got rid of his dried worm collection and now he has to find it. How is he supposed to find time to focus on mold?
The second book about Phineas L. MacGuire and his scientific experiments, Phineas L. MacGuire...Gets Slimed!, is as much fun as the first, and includes slimy new experiments that you can do at home!
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- Atheneum Books for Young Readers |
- 208 pages |
- ISBN 9781416901969 |
- August 2007 |
- Grades 3 - 7 |
- Lexile 870
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Read an Excerpt
chapter one
My name is Phineas Listerman MacGuire.
Most people call me Mac.
My Sunday-school teacher and my pediatrician call me Phineas.
A few people, mostly my great-uncle Phil and his cockatiel, Sparky, call me Phin.
Nobody calls me Listerman.
Nobody.
I mean not one single person.
Everybody got that?
I am currently in the fourth grade at Woodbrook Elementary School. On the first day of school my teacher, Mrs. Tuttle, asked us to write down our number one, two, and three goals for the year. Here is what I wrote:
To be the best fourth-grade scientist...
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