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BRAIN FINDS A LEG, THE
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Written by
Martin Chatterton
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Hardcover: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-56145-503-4
Total Pages: 224
Size: 5-1/4 x 8
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MARTIN CHATTERTON was born in Liverpool, England and attended art college in London. He has worked successfully in the publishing and design business. He is the author of more than twenty books and the illustrator of more than eighty. He lives in Australia.You can visit Martin Chatterton's website at: www.worldofchatterton.com
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This hilarious genre-bending YA mystery will appeal to fans of M. T. Anderson, Douglas Adams, and Neil Gaiman.
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Accelerated Reader & Reading Counts Tests:
Reading Counts Level: 6.2
AR Quiz#: 132417
AR Reading Level: 6.3
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Something strange is happening in Farrago Bay and Sheldon McGlone is going to get to the bottom of it. The local wildlife is behaving strangely and so are some of the grown-ups, particularly his teacher, the weird and elusive Miss Fleming. It doesn't help that Sheldon is being relentlessly pursued by bullies—including his older brother!
Just when things couldn't get much worse, a new kid turns up in Sheldon's classroom. Theophilus Brain, aka "The Brain," has an excessive imagination and a lot of odd ideas about what is ailing Farrago Bay. With a missing human leg and a crocodile who likes to play fetch as clues, Sheldon and the Brain turn detective and uncover a web of evil that stretches across two continents.
Author Martin Chatterton has crafted a wonderfully imaginative mystery that features memorable, well-drawn characters and an over-the-top storyline. The surprising and occasionally hilarious plot twists will engage and delight young readers.
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Reviews
"...young readers who crave literary insanity will love reading it...industrial-strength zaniness."Kirkus "...Chatterton creates the ideal odd couple in the Brain and Sheldon, skillfully playing Shedon's affable mediocrity against the Brain's Holmes-like demeanor...sure to please fans of M.T. Anderson's Whales on Stilts."Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
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More books by Author/Illustrators:
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Brain Full of Holes, The
The Brain and his sidekick Sheldon McGlone encounter parallel universes, flying cows, carnivorous cuckoo clocks, and shrinking scientists in this new fast-paced adventure that features the silly side of physics.
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