The Secret Science Project That Almost Ate the School (Paula Wiseman Books) - Hardcover

Sierra, Judy

 
9781416911753: The Secret Science Project That Almost Ate the School (Paula Wiseman Books)

Synopsis

Students, heed this little rhyme:
When it's science project time,
Do not make goop,
or glop,
or grime,
And never mess with
mutant slime

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About the Authors

Judy Sierra is the author of many award-winning books for children including the bestsellers Antarctic Antics, illustrated by Jose Aruego and Ariane Dewey; Wild About Books, illustrated by Marc Brown; and The Secret Science Project that Almost Ate the School, illustrated by Stephen Gammell. Sierra holds a PhD in folklore and mythology from the University of California, Los Angeles. She has received the Children's Choice Award from the International Reading Association, two Aesop awards from the American Folklore Society, and the E.B. White Read Aloud Prize from the Association of Booksellers for Children. She lives with her husband in Eugene, Oregon. Visit her online at JudySierra.net.

Stephen Gammell is the beloved illustrator of more than fifty books for children, including Song and Dance Man by Karen Ackerman, which received the Caldecott Medal, and two Caldecott Honor Books: The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant, Where the Buffaloes Begin by Olaf Baker, and The Secret Science Project That Almost Ate Our School by Judy Sierra. Mr. Gammell lives with his wife, Linda, in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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The Secret Science Project That Almost Ate the School

By Judy Sierra

Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books

Copyright © 2006 Judy Sierra
All right reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-4169-1175-3

Chapter One

Just then I heard my father's voice. "What's going on in there? Something in that bedroom smells like moldy underwear."

My science project's sensitive." I warned. "Don't make it mad."

There wasn't time to stop the crime. The slime ingested Dad.

(Continues...)


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