Owen Foote, Mighty Scientist
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Overview
Fast-paced and funny, this new story treats themes of competition, ambition, squeamishness, and loyalty in the appealing style Owen Foote fans have come to expect.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780547563084 |
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| Publisher: | HarperCollins |
| Publication date: | 09/20/2004 |
| Sold by: | HARPERCOLLINS |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 96 |
| Lexile: | 530L (what's this?) |
| File size: | 2 MB |
| Age Range: | 6 - 9 Years |
About the Author
Stephanie Greene is the author of many books for young readers, including the popular Owen Foote books. Ms. Greene lives in Chapel Hill, N.C. Her website is www.stephaniegreenebooks.com.
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Owen Foote, Mighty Scientist
By Smith, Catharine Bowman
Clarion Books
Smith, Catharine BowmanAll right reserved.
ISBN: 0618430164
Excerpt
"Boys and girls?" Mrs. McBride grabbed a stack of paper from her desk and
waved it in the air above her head. "Before you leave, I"m going to hand out
the information about the science fair."
Owen flashed Joseph a quick look across the aisle and made the thumbs-up
sign. He had been waiting for this all year.
"Make sure you show this to your parents," their teacher said. "The science
fair is in three weeks. Mr. Wozniak would like to have as many of you as
possible participate." She handed everyone a paper as she moved slowly
down the aisle toward Owen. "There will be sessions in the library after
school for those of you who need help. Volunteers will be there to help you
get started.
"The important thing to remember," she went on in a loud voice as she
handed Owen his copy, "is that you need to come up with a project you can
do on your own or as a team. It"s fine if your parents want to give you a bit of
help. But you need to be the one who does the work."
"Try telling that to Anthony," Owen muttered.
Last year Anthony did a project on astronomy. His father took the
photographs with his expensive telescope. He typed the descriptions below
them, too. It looked as if all Anthony had done was sign his name.
Thinking about the second prize Anthony won still made Owen mad. If judges
couldn"t tell the difference between a project a kid did by himself and one his
parents did for him, they should let kids be the judges.
Kids could tell every time.
He quickly scanned the notice Mrs. McBride had handed him. It had dates
and rules and information about prizes. Words like hypothesis and scientific
method were written in bold type.
Owen could hardly wait to get home and read it. He loved the science fair.
Chesterfield School had held it for the first time when he was in the first
grade. Owen could still remember how amazing the projects had seemed to
him.
Last year he and Joseph did a project on evaporation. It embarrassed Owen
every time he thought about how babyish it had been. Neither of them had
cared that it didn"t win anything.
They were only in the second grade. They still thought working for nothing
was fun.
This year was different.
This year Owen had to win a prize. If he didn"t, Mr. Wozniak would never
know who Owen was. How much Owen loved science.
He wouldn"t pick Owen to be in his fourth grade class.
Owen knew that if he didn"t get into Mr. Wozniak"s class, he would die.
Lots of kids who liked science wanted to be in that class. Owen didn"t just
want to be there. He felt as if he belonged there.
When it came to science, there wasn"t another teacher in Chesterfield
School like Mr. Wozniak. Or another classroom like his. Every time Owen
walked past it, he felt as though he was walking past a magic place.
A sign over the door said LAND OF WOZ. There was a rainbow above it. And
a picture of a wizard with a peaked hat and a wand.
Mr. Wozniak"s students were called Wizards. The ones who followed the
class rules and worked hard were awarded a special Wizard pass. It allowed
them to stay inside at recess and play chess if they wanted. Even walk to
the media center by themselves.
The classroom walls were lined with aquariums. A tiger salamander named
Elliot lived in one. Next to him was Big Mac, a yellow-bellied slider. Then
Boinky, a huge box turtle. There were lizards and newts and snakes.
And in one, a lone frog named Hip.
"It was Hip and Hop," one of the Wizards told Owen"s class last year when
they were touring Critter Island. "But Hop ran away."
To Owen, Critter Island was the most special part of it all. Mr. Wozniak"s
class built it every year. First, they pushed all the tables together and
covered them with plywood. Then they took shredded newspaper and flour
and water and made papier-mâché. They built mountains and streams and
lakes.
They painted trees and grass and water.
Then all the Wizards chose an animal they liked and studied it until they
were experts. When the younger classes came in for a tour during the last
week of school, the Wizards stood around in white lab coats and talked
about their animals.
Owen could still remember how it felt to file into that room. How cool the
Wizards looked in their white lab coats. To him, they looked like real
scientists. He had been dreaming about wearing one of those coats ever
since. He didn"t think he could bear it if he got into any other fourth grade
class.
Copyright © 2004 by Stephanie Greene. Reprinted by permission of Clarion
Books / Houghton Mifflin Company. Please verify quotations against the
bound book.(Continues...)
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Table of Contents
| 1 | "Those Are the Ones I Want" | 1 |
| 2 | Lab Coats, Here We Come! | 14 |
| 3 | Lizard Talk | 22 |
| 4 | "Eureka!" | 33 |
| 5 | All Handfuls Aren't the Same | 46 |
| 6 | The Perfect Project | 55 |
| 7 | A Catastrophe of Major Proportions | 64 |
| 8 | Outside the Box | 78 |
| 9 | Side by Side | 86 |
What People are Saying About This
"endearing...consistently fresh chapter book series. Every Owen needs a buddy like Joseph." THE HORN BOOK Horn Book
"...a great title to spark discussion...a contemporary story of friendship and the acceptance of differences." BOOKLIST Booklist, ALA
"highly imaginative in its own right...a welcome addition to the stable of short chapter books" BCCB Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books