The Mad Scientists' Club

by Bertrand R Brinley, Charles Geer (Illustrator)

Overview

60th Anniversary Edition

A strange sea monster suddenly appears on the lake ...a fortune is unearthed from an old cannon ... a valuable dinosaur egg is stolen.

Who's responsible? Those seven junior geniuses - and their wild ideas!

"Every time you Mad Scientists get mixed up in something, it means trouble!" cries the mayor of Mammoth Falls.

Watch out as the seven junior geniuses of the Mad Scientists' Club turn the town upside down.

Fully illustrated with classic Charles Geer drawings.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781948959315
Publisher:	Purple House Press
Publication date:	04/30/2021
Series:	Mad Scientist Club , #1
Pages:	210
Sales rank:	129,411
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.48(d)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

Read an Excerpt

Dinky Poore didn't really mean to start the story about the huge sea monster in Strawberry Lake. He was only telling a fib because he had to have an excuse for getting home late for supper. So he told his folks he'd been running around the lake trying to get a closer look at a huge, snakelike thing he'd seen in the water, and the first thing he knew he was too far from home to get back in time.

His mother and father greeted the tale with some skepticism. But Dinky's two sisters were more impressionable, and that's how the story really got out. They kept pestering him for so many details about the monster that he had to invent a fantastic tale to satisfy them. That's one of the troubles with a lie. You've got to keep adding to it to make it believable to people.

It didn't take long for the story to get around town, and pretty soon Dinky Poore was a celebrity in Mammoth Falls. He even had his picture in the paper, together with an "artists conception" of the thing he'd seen. It was gruesome-looking -- something like a dinosaur, but with a scaly, saw-toothed back like a dragon. Dinky was never short on imagination, and he was able to give the artist plenty of details.

It was the artists' sketch in the newspaper that got Henry Mulligan all excited. Henry is First Vice President and also Chief of Research for the Mad Scientists' Club and is noted for his brainstorms. Neither Henry nor anyone else in the club actually believed Dinky had seen a real monster, but we were all willing to play along with the gag -- especially when Henry suggested that we could build a monster just like the one shown in the newspaper.

Table of Contents

The Strange Sea Monster of Strawberry Lake
The Big Egg
The Secret of the Old Cannon
The Unidentified Flying Man of Mammoth Falls
The Great Gas Bag Race
The Voice in the Chimney
Night Rescue