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Centerburg Tales: More Adventures of Homer Price
Contributor(s): McCloskey, Robert (Author)
ISBN: 014031072X     ISBN-13: 9780140310726
Publisher: Puffin Books
OUR PRICE:   $7.19  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: October 1977
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Temporarily out of stock - Will ship within 2 to 5 weeks
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.