The Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Crook - Softcover

Davis, Eleanor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1599903962 ISBN 13: 9781599903965

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Childrens, 2009

Synopsis

Super-smart Julian Calendar thinks starting junior high at a new school will mean he can shed his nerdy image-but then he meets Ben and Greta, two secret scientists like himself! The three form a secret club, complete with a high-tech lair. There, they can work to their hearts content on projects like the Stink-O-Meter, the Kablovsky Copter, and the Nightsneak Goggles.

All that tinkering comes in handy when the trio discovers an evil scientist's dastardly plan to rob a museum. Can three inventors, armed with their wacky creations, hope to defeat this criminal mastermind?

About this title

About the Author

Eleanor Davis received a Theodore Seuss Geisel Honor award for her first children's book, Stinky, published by Francoise Mouly's Toon Books in 2008. Her critically acclaimed stories for older readers have appeared in the anthologies The Best American Comics 2008, for which she did the cover, and Mome. Eleanor's mini-comics first garnered attention for their innovative handmade die-cuts and coloring. She was chosen as one of Print magazine's 2009 New Visual Artists. She lives and works with her boyfriend, Drew Weing, in Athens, Georgia. This is her first full-length graphic novel.

From School Library Journal

Grade 3-7–Julian Calendar, 11, is a supersmart transfer student trying desperately to fit in at his new middle school. Just when he starts to believe that he'll never find his place, he discovers two other brilliant minds and together they form the Secret Science Alliance. These three braniacs create their own book of blueprints for such cunning creations as the stinkometer, sticky and dangerous gluebombs, and the flying Kablovsky Copter. However, their blueprints are stolen by evil Dr. Stringer, who has plans for them. Davis's first long-form comic is packed full of detail down to every minute tool in the Alliance's workshop, and the flying words and panels move the story at a quick pace. Davis's creativity is evident from the myriad gadgets and schemes of the story. Children will see, through these inventions and the triumph of the protagonists, that science can be cool.–Carrie Rogers-Whitehead, Kearns Library, UT END

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Childrens
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1599903962
• ISBN 13: 9781599903965
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 153
• Illustrator: Davis Eleanor