Alvin Fernald, Mayor for a Day


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"A vote for Alvin is a vote for action!" That was Alvin Fernald's campaign slogan. And action is exactly what Riverton gets when Alvin takes over as Mayor for a day. This funny, fast paced two act play gives each actor at least one starring scence. Most important, it offers pointed insights into human behavior - juvenile and adult"--P. [4] of cover.




The Marvelous Inventions of Alvin Fernald


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Despite the help of the Pest, some amazing inventions, and his best friend, Shoie, Alvin still wonders whether even he can solve the Huntley mystery.







Alvin Fernald, Foreign Trader


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Alvin Fernald’s “Magnificent Brain” has a life of its own. In fact, somehow or other it has come up with the winning grand prize recipe in a candy-making contest—and no one, including Alvin, can figure out quite how it happened. Now, as guests of the Kitchenmate Appliance Company, Alvin, his friend Shoie, and his sister Daphne (“The Pest”) take off for a whirlwind tour of Europe. Having just come to the edge of flunking a class in economics (Magnificent Brain, where were you?), Alvin is about to be given a practical—and perilous—lesson in international trade. Mystery, ingenuity—and, well bicycles—hilariously collide in this next book about Alvin by the former editor of Popular Mechanics Magazine, Clifford B. Hicks.




Alvin Fernald, Mayor for a Day


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Alvin's Swap Shop


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While running a swap shop, a group of youngsters become involved in the mystery of a sunken ship.




Alvin Fernald's Incredible Buried Treasure


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Alvin, Shoie, and Daphne help a professor figure out a coded message in hopes of finding a copy of the Gettysburg Address written by Abraham Lincoln himself, and hidden by Caleb, a former slave who later lived in the White House.




Alvin Fernald, Superweasel


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Alvin's pollution project is geared to expose the biggest polluter in town--the owner of the chemical plant.




The Libby Family in America, 1602-1881


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Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.




The Mad Scientists' Club


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The six members of the Mad Scientists' Club experiment with new projects which include investigating a strange sea monster and the theft of a valuable dinosaur egg.