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kidscanpress.com presents ...
	Star Jumper Journal of a Cardboard Genius written and illustrated by Frank Asch from the series Journals of a Cardboard Genius For information - including sample spreads, free downloadables and more - go to www.kidscanpress.com/US/product.aspx?productid=2985

Hardcover Jacket USD $14.95 978-1-55337-886-0 Paperback USD $7.95 978-1-55337-887-7 Grades: 2 to 5 Ages: 7 to 10 Language Arts Skills & Strategies early reading Reading Levels: Fountas & Pinnell Z Grade Level 7-up Accelerated Reader 4.2 MG © 2006 BW 5 1/2 x 7 1/4 128 pages	Self-proclaimed genius inventor Alex is convinced that his little brother Jonathan is evil. The kid never shuts up. He's a klutz, and he drools on his pillow when he sleeps. Jonathan's specialty, though, is sticking to Alex like glue — and sticking his nose into his big brother's business. That's why Alex has to leave Earth and fly so far away that no one will ever be able to find him. Using cardboard, duct tape, old odds and ends and his amazing scientific imagination, Alex builds Star Jumper, a spaceship that will deliver him from his rotten little brother forever! It's a plan only a cardboard genius could ever hope to pull off. But Jonathan has other ideas — and a secret that ultimately brings forth Alex's most brilliant creation ever! Awards 2008 Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award, short-listed 2006 Parents’ Choice Award – Silver Medal, winner Reviews “Readers who like to tinker and dream will be the best audience for this tongue-in-cheek tale, in which the lines between imagination and reality are intriguingly blurred.” — Booklist, July 2006 “[L]ively and realistic, bouncing between mock scientific jargon and exasperated brother-speak … a good choice for young science-fiction fans.” — School Library Journal, July 2006 “Play and reality merge” — Kirkus Reviews, March 2006 “This fun book will take the reader on an adventure through the possibilities of the imagination …” — Library Media Connection, January 2007

kidscanpress.com presents ...
	Star Jumper Journal of a Cardboard Genius written and illustrated by Frank Asch from the series Journals of a Cardboard Genius For information - including sample spreads, free downloadables and more - go to www.kidscanpress.com/US/product.aspx?productid=2985

Hardcover Jacket USD $14.95 978-1-55337-886-0 Paperback USD $7.95 978-1-55337-887-7 Grades: 2 to 5 Ages: 7 to 10 Language Arts Skills & Strategies early reading Reading Levels: Fountas & Pinnell Z Grade Level 7-up Accelerated Reader 4.2 MG © 2006 BW 5 1/2 x 7 1/4 128 pages	Self-proclaimed genius inventor Alex is convinced that his little brother Jonathan is evil. The kid never shuts up. He's a klutz, and he drools on his pillow when he sleeps. Jonathan's specialty, though, is sticking to Alex like glue — and sticking his nose into his big brother's business. That's why Alex has to leave Earth and fly so far away that no one will ever be able to find him. Using cardboard, duct tape, old odds and ends and his amazing scientific imagination, Alex builds Star Jumper, a spaceship that will deliver him from his rotten little brother forever! It's a plan only a cardboard genius could ever hope to pull off. But Jonathan has other ideas — and a secret that ultimately brings forth Alex's most brilliant creation ever! Awards 2008 Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award, short-listed 2006 Parents’ Choice Award – Silver Medal, winner Reviews “Readers who like to tinker and dream will be the best audience for this tongue-in-cheek tale, in which the lines between imagination and reality are intriguingly blurred.” — Booklist, July 2006 “[L]ively and realistic, bouncing between mock scientific jargon and exasperated brother-speak … a good choice for young science-fiction fans.” — School Library Journal, July 2006 “Play and reality merge” — Kirkus Reviews, March 2006 “This fun book will take the reader on an adventure through the possibilities of the imagination …” — Library Media Connection, January 2007

kidscanpress.com presents ...
	Star Jumper Journal of a Cardboard Genius written and illustrated by Frank Asch from the series Journals of a Cardboard Genius For information - including sample spreads, free downloadables and more - go to www.kidscanpress.com/US/product.aspx?productid=2985

Hardcover Jacket USD $14.95 978-1-55337-886-0 Paperback USD $7.95 978-1-55337-887-7 Grades: 2 to 5 Ages: 7 to 10 Language Arts Skills & Strategies early reading Reading Levels: Fountas & Pinnell Z Grade Level 7-up Accelerated Reader 4.2 MG © 2006 BW 5 1/2 x 7 1/4 128 pages	Self-proclaimed genius inventor Alex is convinced that his little brother Jonathan is evil. The kid never shuts up. He's a klutz, and he drools on his pillow when he sleeps. Jonathan's specialty, though, is sticking to Alex like glue — and sticking his nose into his big brother's business. That's why Alex has to leave Earth and fly so far away that no one will ever be able to find him. Using cardboard, duct tape, old odds and ends and his amazing scientific imagination, Alex builds Star Jumper, a spaceship that will deliver him from his rotten little brother forever! It's a plan only a cardboard genius could ever hope to pull off. But Jonathan has other ideas — and a secret that ultimately brings forth Alex's most brilliant creation ever! Awards 2008 Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award, short-listed 2006 Parents’ Choice Award – Silver Medal, winner Reviews “Readers who like to tinker and dream will be the best audience for this tongue-in-cheek tale, in which the lines between imagination and reality are intriguingly blurred.” — Booklist, July 2006 “[L]ively and realistic, bouncing between mock scientific jargon and exasperated brother-speak … a good choice for young science-fiction fans.” — School Library Journal, July 2006 “Play and reality merge” — Kirkus Reviews, March 2006 “This fun book will take the reader on an adventure through the possibilities of the imagination …” — Library Media Connection, January 2007

written and illustrated by Frank Asch

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from the series
Journals of a Cardboard Genius

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Self-proclaimed genius inventor Alex is convinced that his little brother Jonathan is evil. The kid never shuts up. He's a klutz, and he drools on his pillow when he sleeps. Jonathan's specialty, though, is sticking to Alex like glue — and sticking his nose into his big brother's business.

That's why Alex has to leave Earth and fly so far away that no one will ever be able to find him. Using cardboard, duct tape, old odds and ends and his amazing scientific imagination, Alex builds Star Jumper, a spaceship that will deliver him from his rotten little brother forever! It's a plan only a cardboard genius could ever hope to pull off. But Jonathan has other ideas — and a secret that ultimately brings forth Alex's most brilliant creation ever!

Grades: 2 to 5

Ages: 7 to 10

BW • 5 1/2 x 7 1/4 • 128 pages

Curriculum Connections

Language Arts

Skills & Strategies

early reading

Reading levels

Fountas & Pinnell

Grade Level

7-up

Accelerated Reader

MG 4.2

Reviews

“Readers who like to tinker and dream will be the best audience for this tongue-in-cheek tale, in which the lines between imagination and reality are intriguingly blurred.”: — Booklist, July 2006
“[L]ively and realistic, bouncing between mock scientific jargon and exasperated brother-speak … a good choice for young science-fiction fans.”: — School Library Journal, July 2006
“Play and reality merge”: — Kirkus Reviews, March 2006
“This fun book will take the reader on an adventure through the possibilities of the imagination …”: — Library Media Connection, January 2007

Awards

2008: Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award, short-listed
2006: Parents’ Choice Award – Silver Medal, winner