Shirley J. Juvenile Fiction Science Fairs/Young Inventors
When their school is invited to participate in a science fair everyone expects Griffin Bing to be the first to sign up - his father is a serious inventor so naturally everyone expects Griffin to follow in his Dad's footsteps, everybody except Griffin that is. Gordon has no interest in the competition but when his arch nemesis and arrogant bully, Darren Vader, taunts him into a competition to see which of them will win and force the other to get up in the lunchroom in front of everybody and make a speech about how great the winner is - well! Griffin plans to enlist the help of his science geek friend Melissa only to find out Melissa has signed up to compete herself which causes a big hoorah between them escalating into a girls vs. boys match. Griffin is stuck trying to talk his dad into helping her, but, his Dad makes it clear he will help but he won't DO the project. And then new crabby neighbor, Mr. Hartman ("Heartless" the kids call him) moves in and stops the gang from taking a short cut through his yard. And what is he up to squirreling away building materials and boxes of groceries? Things get way out of hand and surveillance becomes the word of the day enlisting Ben's ferret, "Ferret-Face," to do search and rescue missions. A cute story that can stand alone in it's own right. I would recommend this story to 4th graders on up.
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