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The Princess of Neptune Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux Hardcover, 224 pages $17.00 Ages: 10 and up Pub. Year: 2004 ISBN: 0-374-36119-3 |
Formula for Adventure:
*A teenage punk-rock drummer and her pesky younger brother
*A doomed effort to get a good grade in science class
*A world-famous research institute, led by a fearless father-and-son team
*A terrible secret behind a beloved fast-food franchise
*An intergalactic beatuty pageant
*A singing cockroach from the moon
*An entire planet afraid to go to the mall
*A deranged plot to become the world's biggest pop star
Mix them all together, and you get . . . Confused? No. A new novel by Quentin Dodd? Yes! Available at your local bookstore or your favorite online retailer. |
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Beatnik Rutabagas from Beyond the Stars is about . . . Walter Nutria, a teenage boy dedicated to sci-fi films, but definitely not dedicated to East Weston Northside High School! He's been recurited to be a spaceship commander by . . . Uxno, Snartmer, and Voo, aliens who look like pudgy middle-aged men in footie pajamas, and who are constantly at war with . . . The Wotwots, rutabaga-shaped beatniks piloting the WSS Ferlinghetti, whose plans for galactic domination endanger the life of . . . Yselle Meridian, also of East Weston, a cool, brainy girl who's been renting videos on Walter's card, and who tops off a cast of characters whose destinies are about to be changed forever by . . . Space Mice from Galaxy Four! Beatnik Rutabagas from Beyond the Stars is a chance to witness amazing battles, travel to strange and distant planets--and meet a giant talking thumb! Read this book now! You won't regret it. Probably.Winner of the Golden Duck / Eleanor Cameron Award for science fiction Available at your local bookstore or your favorite online retailer.
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Beatnik Rutabagas from Beyond the Stars Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux Hardcover, 224 pages $17.00 Ages: 10 and up Pub. Year: 2001 ISBN: 0-374-30515-3 |
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BEATNIK RUTABAGAS jacket illustration by Gina
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