Quigley McCormick and the Stuperton Conspiracy.Quigley McCormick and the Stuperton Conspiracy David Hollaway Quackenworth Publishing PO Box 4747, Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , CA 90231-4747 1933211563, $15.95 www.quackenworth.com Written by David Hollaway, Quigley McCormick and the Stuperton Conspiracy is a high-spirited chapter book for young readers. Second in the award-winning Quigley McCormick series, The Stuperton Conspiracy follows the wackiest day in the history of Quackenworth Hotshot Acadamy, a day when the teachers are all on strike and a plague of "substituteitis" has taken over the whole school! What's worse, Quigley's substitute Mr. Snotenbaucher, is in no mood to humor humor, according to ancient theory, any of four bodily fluids that determined man's health and temperament. Hippocrates postulated that an imbalance among the humors (blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile) resulted in pain and disease, and that good health was mischievous mis·chie·vous adj. 1. Causing mischief. 2. Playful in a naughty or teasing way. 3. Troublesome; irritating: a mischievous prank. 4. children! Printed in large type with an inset ribbon for easy bookmarking In genetics and epigenetics, bookmarking is a biological phenomenon believed to function as an epigenetic mechanism for transmitting cellular memory of the pattern of gene expression in a cell, throughout mitosis, to its daughter cells. , Quigley McCormick and the Stuperton Conspiracy is tongue-twistingly funny and sure to encourage young people to pursue the wonderful passion of reading. Highly recommended. |
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