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Alvin Fernald: Foreign Trader
Alvin Fernald's ¢â‚¬Å“Magnificent Brain¢â‚¬? has a life of its own. In fact, somehow or other it has come up with the winning grand prize recipe in a candy-making contest"and no one, including Alvin, can figure out quite how it happened. Now, as guests of the Kitchenmate Appliance Company, Alvin, his friend Shoie, and his sister Daphne (¢â‚¬Å“The Pest¢â‚¬?) take off for a whirlwind tour of Europe. Having just come to the edge of flunking a class in economics (Magnificent Brain, where were you?), Alvin is about to be given a practical"and perilous"lesson in international trade. Mystery, ingenuity"and, well bicycles"hilariously collide in this next book about Alvin by the former editor of Popular Mechanics Magazine , Clifford B. Hicks. Ag... ... Read More
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Alvin Fernald: Mayor for a Day
Mayor Alvin Fernald. Wow! Alvin's dreams of political grandeur may become a reality"in 5th grade! A class project turns into a major"or we should say, ¢â‚¬Å“mayor,¢â‚¬? event when Riverton's Mayor Massey proposes to turn the city government over to the winner of the class election and his party for one whole day. Things pop right along as Alvin, with the helpful maneuverings of Speedy Glomitz, runs against the no-longer-shy Theresa Undermine. Sometimes Speedy's maneuvering is a little disconcerting. What's really going on behind those lazy eyes that don't seem to miss a thing? The tension continues to build when Alvin is elected, and though he may not like Mayor Massey, he definitely likes being mayor for a day! But it seems that Speedy is ... ... Read More
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Alvin's Secret Code
Alvin's ¢â‚¬Å“sixth sense,¢â‚¬? which clearly indicates that a crumpled note holds an unmistakably coded message, is about to catapult two seventh grade secret-agents-turned-cryptographers (plus Alvin's younger sister Daphne,¢â‚¬Å“the Pest¢â‚¬?) into the intricacies of authentic code detection and the dangers of a newly stirred-up 100-year-old mystery. Even Alvin's ¢â‚¬Å“Magnificent Brain¢â‚¬? is nearly put on overload before the bang-up solution to the code and the mystery carry the three agents to an ending that is satisfying to all-well, to almost all. This reprint of a classic favorite includes Alvin's own notes on cryptography in an appendix at the back. Ages 10 and up... Buy Now
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