Dean, kidnaps John and Abigail luckily, the sibs’ hobbies - cryptic-crossword-solving and drum-playing - come in handy against incompetent crooks. Dean.) Angry at being dismissed, Dean, aided by his twin Dan D. "My idea was, put it in a knapsack," whines Dean D.
(Lots of people, beginning with da Vinci, have had that idea, argues Professor T. Dean’s undies are in a twist over a failing grade (thirteen years ago) and because he claims the professor stole his idea for a personal one-man helicopter. Dean, one of Professor Templeton’s former students and a mustache-twirler of the first degree. When they arrive on campus and see the word "Thief!!!!!!" scrawled across Dad’s picture, they become suspicious. Tick-Tock Tech), the siblings are surprised. 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. Kozikowski, Sachem Public Library, Holbrook, NY An entertaining start to a new series.-M. However, Weiner's vain and snarky narrator is an important character, asking humorous review questions at the end of each chapter ("Can you spell moustache?") and regularly dissing readers ("Don't embarrass yourself."). Its narrator, like Snicket's, interrupts with definitions and additional information. Comparisons to Lemony Snicket's "A Series of Unfortunate Events" (HarperCollins) are inevitable, but this story feels fresh with a loving family of clever yet appealingly normal characters at its heart. Weiner surprises and engages readers the siblings' escape from their kidnapper is drawn as a flow chart, and Abigail's cryptic crossword hobby will interest puzzle fans. Dean's escape sets the stage for book two. He kidnaps John and Abigail in retaliation, but, being more of a buffoon than a villain, he's no match for the twins' resourcefulness and their father's stalwart integrity. Dean, claims that the professor stole one of his inventions. Their device works, and the family's life improves dramatically with the addition of a "ridiculous" dog. 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.
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