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Reviewed on July 1, 2012 | Grades 5-up
Gr 5–7—John and Abigail, 12, want a dog and know just how to approach their professor-inventor father: build an ingenious gadget to get his attention… which is a challenge, since Dad has been a bit distracted since their mother's recent death. Their device works, and the family's life improves dramatically with the addition of a "ridiculous" dog. Then one of Mr. Templeton's former students, Dean D. Dean, claims that the professor stole one of his inventions. He kidnaps John and...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on September 1, 2012
When their father, inventor and professor Elton Templeton, abruptly announces to thirteen-year-old twins Abigail and John that he’s accepted a new job at the Tickeridge-Baltock Institute of Technology (a.k.a. Tick-Tock Tech), the siblings are surprised. When they arrive on campus and see the word "Thief!!!!!!" scrawled across Dad’s picture, they become suspicious. The defacer emerges as Dean D. Dean, one of Professor Templeton’s former students and a mustache-twirler of the first degree. Dean’s undies are in a twist ov...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2012
Thirteen-year-old twins John and Abigail's inventor/professor father has a new job at Tick-Tock Tech. There, twins Dean D. Dean (an angry former st...Log In or Sign Up to Read More