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 The
most useless and obnoxious thing in the world of eleven-year-old
Caroline Tate is her brother, J. P., the genius with the photographic
memory. But now, for the first time, she needs him. She needs him
because upstairs, in the fifth-floor apartment, it seems that a
mystery man named Frederick Fiske is researching obscure poisons
so that he can murder Caroline and J. P. and marry their mother.
Caroline's best friend, Stacy, future investigative journalist,
is intrigued - but only by the headline she envisions: WOOS MOM,
SLAYS KIDS.
J. P., the electronics wizard, is the one with the know-how - and
the wires, switches, batteries, and transformers - to turn an ordinary
kitchen chair into a do-it-yourself electric chair and an unsuspecting
dinner guest, Frederick Fiske, into a grilled cheese sandwich.
All the evidence to convict the murderer is waiting, hidden in a
pair of forgotten galoshes. But one of the things about galoshes
is that somebody's bound to put a foot into one sometime. And at
least one of the hundred things about Caroline is that whatever
happens, she's irresistible.
"Lowry's
style is bright, fast-paced, and funny, with skillfully drawn, believable
characters." -- School Library Journal ALA Notable Book
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SWITCHAROUND
Forced to spend a summer with their father and his "new"
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YOUR MOVE, J.P.! A sequel
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