The Magical Fruit
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Aladdin
Just the Series: Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder Vol. 4   

Series and Publisher: Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder   

Annotation: When a Russian billionaire robs the Norwegian Gold Reserve and melts the last remaining gold bar into the Premier Soccer League trophy, it's up to Doctor Proctor, Nilly and Lisa to recapture it.
 
Reviews: 3
Catalog Number: #5625442
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Aladdin
Copyright Date: 2014
Edition Date: 2014 Release Date: 11/11/14
Illustrator: Lowery, Mike,
Pages: 314 pages
ISBN: 1-442-49343-7
ISBN 13: 978-1-442-49343-8
Dewey: Fic
LCCN: 2013017537
Dimensions: 20 cm.
Language: English
Reviews:
ALA Booklist

When Norway's entire gold reserve is stolen in the night, the king knows there are only three people he trusts to get it back: Nilly, Lisa, and Doctor Proctor ventor of industrial-strength fart powder and the time-traveling bathtub. Together, they must infiltrate a band of thieves and win the World Cup in order to get Norway back its gold. Fourth in the Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder series, this keeps a quick clip with plenty of silliness and just the right amount of toilet humor to draw in reluctant readers or fans of Dav Pilkey's Captain Underpants and Andy Griffiths' Butt Wars.

Horn Book

The fourth book in the Norwegian series takes Nilly and Lisa to London to save Norway's entire gold reserve, stolen by a Russian billionaire. Doctor Proctor, scientist and inventor of odorless "fartonaut powder" and other strangely implausible potions, helps the kids pull off a fantastically successful financial rescue. Silly humor coupled with outlandish thrills will appeal to lovers of cartoonish absurdity.

Kirkus Reviews

Amid drama in both the sewers of Oslo and London's immense Wobbley Stadium, the intrepid trio that previously saved Legoland (Who Cut the Cheese?, 2011) tackles an even more nefarious threat. Maximus Rublov is gathering astronomical sums to purchase soccer great Ibranaldovez for his Chelchester City team and has stolen Norway's entire strategic gold reserve (one bar). To retrieve it, diminutive Nilly (the "biggest--and also the smallest--liar in all of Norway") with his friends Lisa and brilliant scientist Victor Proctor hie off to London. They are armed with courage, quick thinking and several of Dr. Proctor's unusual inventions, notably a potion that turns pee into a freeze ray and his puissant "fartonaut powder." The three not only break into the Bank of the Very Rich located beneath Parliament (one of Rublov's recent acquisitions), but pull off both a (more or less) successful mission and a stunning victory on the pitch for underdog Rotten Ham. Readers of Nesbø's mysteries for adults will find less hard-boiled crime and more Terry Pratchett–like foolery in this 4th outing with Dr. Proctor. Another lighter-than-air exploit from Norway's best-selling novelist, buoyed by alimentary humor and occasional illustrations (the latter not seen). (Light fantasy. 9-11)

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Word Count: 40,148
Reading Level: 5.3
Interest Level: 3-6
Accelerated Reader: reading level: 5.3 / points: 6.0 / quiz: 162921 / grade: Middle Grades
Reading Counts!: reading level:5.4 / points:10.0 / quiz:Q61450
Lexile: 820L

Doctor Proctor, Nilly, and Lisa take a sporty approach to saving the day in this fart-tastically funny adventure from New York Times bestselling author Jo Nesbø.

When a Russian billionaire robs the Norwegian Gold Reserve and melts the last remaining gold bar into the Premier Soccer League trophy, it’s up to Doctor Proctor, Nilly, and Lisa to recapture the precious prize. But after a failed break-in attempt at the billionaire’s subterranean gold-melting lab, and with the Norwegian Gold Reserve Inspection in just three days, the only way to retrieve the trophy is to win it back.

Hoping to prevent national panic and uproar, Nilly and Lisa join the Rotten Ham soccer team to try and lead the hopeless underdogs to victory before time runs out. And with the use of Fartonaut Powder, along with a handful of Doctor Proctor’s other wacky inventions, they just might have a chance!


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