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books:

Phineas L. MacGuire . . . Gets Slimed! (From the Highly Scientific Notebooks of Phineas L. Macguire)
Frances O'Roark Dowell

Atheneum, 2007

Phineas L. MacGuire (a.k.a. Mac) has three goals for fourth grade: 1. To be the best fourth-grade scientist ever. 2. To be the best fourth-grade scientist ever. 3. To be the best fourth-grade scientist ever. It's a tall order, but he's confident that he can achieve it, especiallysince his friend and rival scientist, Aretha, has asked him to help herearn a scout badge by creating the mold that produces penicillin. After all, who knows more ...

Dovey Coe

82 reviews
Frances O'Roark Dowell

Thorndike Press, 2001

Middle Grade Fiction
There's not a lot I can tell you about this book that hasn't already been said. Francis O'Roark Dowell does a fantastic job building the character of Dovey Doe. Right from the first sentence the reader gets to know Dovey personally. Although we don't find out until the end how Parnell actually dies, we know, without a doubt that tough and sweet Dovey Coe could not have done it. No matter how ...

The Kind of Friends We Used to Be
Frances O'Roark Dowell

Atheneum, 2009

Phineas L. MacGuire . . . Erupts!: The First Experiment (From the Highly Scientific Notebooks of Phineas L. ...

3 reviews
Frances O'Roark Dowell

Aladdin, 2007

And from out of left field comes...
Children's librarians must find books to add to their collections from a wide variety of different sources. They read professional serials like Horn Book and School Library Journal. They receive Advanced Readers Copies and read clever blogs that always discuss new titles (cough). Far less professional but no less important, however, is the regular trip to the large corporate bookstore with the ...

Phineas L. MacGuire . . . Blasts Off! (From the Highly Scientific Notebooks of Phineas L. Macguire)
Frances O'Roark Dowell

Atheneum, 2008

Houston,we have a problem! Phineas L. MacGuire (a.k.a. Mac) is less than up-to-date on planetary happenings. (Marsquakes? Who knew?) If he's going to be the best scientist in the fourth grade, Mac has to set his sights pretty high. To outer space, actually. But Space Camp is expensive. Where is he going to find enough money for a week on Mars (or a pretty close simulation thereof)? Houston, we have another problem: a gigantic, slobbery dog ...

Where I'd Like To Be (Aladdin Fiction)

16 reviews
Frances O'Roark Dowell, Bruce Katz

Aladdin, 2004

Really Interesting Book
Great book, especially for young girls in their search for self. This book surely must be based, at least in part, on some observations from East Tennessee Christian Home in Elizabethton, Tennessee because the author has cited several times East Tennessee Children's Home (where the novel is set), as well as Allen Avenue (the actual location of The Home), and Elizabethton, Tennessee (the city in ...

The Secret Language of Girls

24 reviews
Frances O'Roark Dowell

Aladdin, 2005

The Secret Life of Girls
I think this is a beautiful book about friendship hopes dreams and everything in between! It shows how much you need your friends that you've been friends with forever in the end. Also, how 6th grade will either tear you apart or bring you closer together. I am about to endure my journey to 6th grade and I have no clue what I would do if I had to be in either Marylin's shoes or Kates. Finally it ...

Chicken Boy

6 reviews
Frances O'Roark Dowell

Aladdin, 2007

Another Winner from Dowell
Frances Dowell is one of the finest young people's authors out there today. From the masterful and gripping Dovey Coe to the canny Secret Language of Girls, to the thoughtful and gripping world of Chicken Boy, Dowell shows again and again that she understands kids and their concerns. Her books have both strong storytelling and a moral code. She makes characters that provoke lively discussion ...

Shooting the Moon

5 reviews
Frances O'Roark Dowell

Atheneum, 2008

When the moon is in the seventh house...
I've written about this before, but there's a flush of appreciation a reviewer experiences when they discover a great author that they've never read before. Even if that person has been around for years. In the case of Frances O'Roark Dowell, I'd read her first Phineas L. MacGuire book and I thought it was great. Still, I'd never gotten around to reading some of her better known works for ...