Journal of a Teenage Genius

Griffith, Helen V.

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9780688072261: Journal of a Teenage Genius

ISBN 10: 0688072267 ISBN 13: 9780688072261

Publisher: Greenwillow, 1987

In a series of journal entries, a young scientist describes his less-than-successful experiments and trips into the past using his neighbor's time machine.

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From Publishers Weekly:

In her recent picture books, Georgia Music and Grandaddy's Place, Griffith displayed a gentle, wry humor. In this novel, she pulls out the stops with a much zanier wit. In fact, when readers first encounter Zack, a journal-keeping genius, they may not know if the results of his experiments are being greatly exaggerated, or if Zack's telling the truthhe is. He turns a poodle (temporarily) into a boy; invents a growing solution that causes him to shrink on a date with Loretta; and uses a time machine to go back into the past (but not centuries back, just a couple of years, where he meets an old enemy and paves the way for present-day friendship). He also helps Loretta's grandfather return to his homea place not of this earth. There is a rat-a-tat pace to the prose; readers, like Zack, will find themselves in and out of situations at head-spinning speed. An upbeat fantasy with a joyfully optimistic hero at its helm. Ages 8-12.
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