Centerburg Tales: More Adventures of Homer Price Contributor(s): McCloskey, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 014031072X ISBN-13: 9780140310726 Publisher: Puffin Books OUR PRICE: $7.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1977 Annotation: It's not that the folks in Centerburg are especially nosy; it's that in a small town everyone seems to know everything. But Homer Price does know more about what's going on than anyone, because he's usually in the middle of things... |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Lifestyles - City & Town Life - Juvenile Fiction | Boys & Men - Juvenile Fiction | Action & Adventure - General |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 77021458 |
Lexile Measure: 1020 |
Series: Homer Price Adventures |
Physical Information: 0.52" H x 5.09" W x 7.72" (0.34 lbs) 192 pages |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 18 Reading Level: 6.0 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 5.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Centerburg might be your town. Grampa Hercules and his never-ending tall tales, Dulcy Dooner, the uncooperative citizen, unbusinesslike Uncle Ulysses and his friendly lunchroom, the flustered sheriff, the pompous judge--they are all as American as they come. But there's a subtle and delightful difference. In Centerburg, along with the routine of day-to-day living, the most preposterous things keep happening. But nothing fazes Homer Price Ragweeds taller than fire ladders, music that sets a whole town dancing--he solves these problems calmly and efficiently. Homer Price is a boy with a good supply of common sense--and ingenuity Homer's Grampa Hercules is a delightful old rascal and his extravagent reminiscences of his youth are the starting point of many of the episodes. The chapter titles are as enticing as the chapters themselves: The Hide-a-Ride, Looking for Gold, Ever So Much More So, Experiment 13, Grampa Hercules and the Gravitty-Bitties, Pie and Punch and You-Know-Whats. Mr. McCloskey's characters have warmth and kindness and a healthy curiosity; but they are not above a few minor faults and foibles. They are unmistakenably alive. Like Mr. McCloskey himself, they are perpetually amused by the everyday hazards and discrepancies around them. |