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The 14 Fibs of Gregory K. by Greg Pincus; $17; Levine/Scholastic; ages 8-12. Gregory has a hard time telling his math-genius family members, especially his father, that he likes writing, not math. So what does he do? Enters himself in a city-wide math competition. He also tells his best friend that his parents agreed to send him to Author’s Camp with her, when really they’re threatening him with Math is Magic Camp unless he gets a B in his least favorite subject. Only a kid as clever as Greg-
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I hope they revisit the clone Matt in this sequel filled with clever twists and turns. Matt returns to Opium a reluctant drug lord, under pressure to keep up opium production even while his country is in lockdown. He also has a different, more pressing mission: to figure out how to free the zombie-like, worker-bee eejits. Even the father of Matt’s friend, formerly a worldfamous musician, has been turned into a mind-numbed eejit. To succeed, Matt must use remarkable determination and wits, call on his friends’ ingenuity (including that of a smart-mouthed seven-year-old fellow clone named Listen), and battle an African drug lord, an evil physician and his scientist children, among others. Yes, there’s a huge cast of characters and wildly imaginative settings and situations. In other words, another Nancy Farmer gem. N Children’s book reviewer Debbie Duncan of Stanford is the author of e-book “Caller Number Nine” and a regular contributor to the Perspectives series on KQED.
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