Phineas L. Macguire... Gets Cooking! (From the Highly Scientific Notebooks of Phineas L. Macguire) - Softcover

Dowell, Frances O'Roark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1481401009 ISBN 13: 9781481401005

Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2015

Synopsis

Chemistry in the kitchen? Phineas L. MacGuire applies his science skills to culinary creations in this food-tastic tale from the bestselling author of "Chicken Boy." Phineas L. MacGuire scientist extraordinaire has a new chore: cooking dinner every night. He may be a genius, but he knows nothing about following a recipe. A pinch? A dash? A smidge? This doesn t seem very scientific." "A pound of spaghetti? Salt on brownies? Lemon in biscuits? Why, these recipes look a little funky. But he d better learn quickly if he and his friends are going to win the $10,000 Bake-Off prize. And to complicate matters, school bully Evan Forbes has taken a liking to Phineas s brownies too much of a liking. As in, if Phineas can t make Evan enough brownies, he ll get clobbered for sure. Fortunately for Phineas, he has the help of his friends, and even better, he soon discovers that cooking actually "is" kind of like chemistry. So the whole recipe thing might just work out as long as he can keep his cool in the kitchen."

About this title

About the Author:

Frances O'Roark Dowell is the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of Dovey Coe, which won the Edgar Award and the William Allen White Award; Where I'd Like to Be; The Secret Language of Girls and its sequels The Kind of Friends We Used to Be and The Sound of Your Voice, Only Really Far Away; Chicken Boy; Shooting the Moon, which was awarded the Christopher Medal; the Phineas L. MacGuire series; Falling In; the critically acclaimed The Second Life of Abigail Walker; Anybody Shining; Ten Miles Past Normal; Trouble the Water; the Sam the Man series; and The Class. She lives with her family in Durham, North Carolina. Connect with Frances online at FrancesDowell.com.

Preston McDaniels is the illustrator of the Phineas L. MacGuire series and Cynthia Rylant's Lighthouse Family series. He lives in Aurora, Nebraska, with his wife and two daughters.

About this edition

• Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1481401009
• ISBN 13: 9781481401005
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• Illustrator: McDaniels Preston