Henry Reed, Inc.

I read this because I'm making my homeschooled daughter read it next week. I really enjoyed it. It brought back memories of my childhood. I didn't have any adventures like Henry, but I did have adventures that this book brought back! There are at least 3 other books about Henry, I think that I will

Show More

check them out.

Show Less

What a fun read this was when I was 10. At the time I was creating my own laboratory. I read it to my boys a few years back and they loved it too.

A book I enjoyed very much as a child, about Henry Reed, a bright 8th grade boy (father in the diplomatic service in Naples) spending the summer with an aunt and uncle in a very small village outside Princeton NJ; he and a neighbor girl, Midge Glass, form a research company and have a variety of

Show More

amusing experiences, many involving run-ins with disagreeable neighbors and their cat. Some of the lines are genuinely witty -- a boy "as interesting a plate of cold spaghetti" has stuck with me for 40 years or so. I think the fact that Henry and MIdge come across as genuinely intelligent and independent-minded, though sometimes naïve, appealed to me as a clever boy myself.

Show Less