Status
Available
Call number
Publication
Puffin Books
Pages
239
Description
Henry Reed keeps a journal of his summer activities which include setting up a research firm and embarking on a series of usually profitable projects with the aid of his ally and neighbor Midge.
Description
Henry Reed has arrived in Grover's Corner--and the town will never be the same. While spending the summer with his aunt and uncle, Henry comes up with a sure-fire money-making project: Henry Reed, Inc., Research. Henry's neighbor, Midge Glass, has an even more sure-fire hit: Reed and Glass, Inc. Now with Henry's ingenious mind and Midge's practical reasoning, Reed and Class Inc. turns into a huge success--while creating more bewildering and outrageous schemes than the town folk could have imagined.
Series
Collection
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1958
Physical description
239 p.; 7.6 inches
ISBN
0140341447 / 9780140341447
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Lexile
880L
User reviews
LibraryThing member readinggeek451
Henry is a diplomat's teenage son, sent to spend the summer near Princeton with his uncle and aunt. The only other kid around is a girl a little younger than he is. Together, they go into the research business. Lost beagles and escaped rabbits are only a few of their trials.
Henry's deadpan journal
Henry's deadpan journal
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entries relay the whole hilarious summer in understated style. Show Less
LibraryThing member PaulWW
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
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LibraryThing member stevetempo
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.
LibraryThing member antiquary
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
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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
Subjects
Awards
William Allen White Children's Book Award (Nominee — 1961)
Vermont Golden Dome Book Award (Nominee — 1959-1960)
Books From All 50 States (and Washington, D.C.!) (New Jersey)
Call number
J3E.Rob