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279 pp.
| Scholastic/Levine |
October, 2012 |
TradeISBN 978-0-545-38307-3$16.99
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Brian's father's new business venture--producing a "revolutionary" material called Plastisteel--relocates them to Iowa, where the sixth-grade skateboarder makes friends with brainiac Max and popular-kid Alex. The three implausibly use stolen Plastisteel to build a working airplane and save his father's flailing invention. The story is contrived, but kids who share Brian's fascination with flight may go along for the ride.