{"id":108,"date":"2012-05-17T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=108"},"modified":"2015-03-11T10:15:24","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T15:15:24","slug":"project-jackalope-by-emily-ecton-fiction-mad-scientist-secret-agents-crazy-science-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=108","title":{"rendered":"Project Jackalope, by Emily Ecton (book review) – mad scientist, secret agents, crazy science fair"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bookResearchers think up lots of unusual things,
\nlike cyborg insects<\/a>
\nand tracking devices smaller than a grain of rice.
\nSome stay on the drawing board forever and some don’t.<\/p>\n

So, why not develop a jackalope<\/a>?\u00a0 Reputed to have a vicious personality, the ability to mimic human voices, and savage killer instincts, jackalopes would make terrible pets – but might be terrifying weapons as well.<\/p>\n

You’ll have to read Project Jackalope<\/i>\u00a0 for yourself to see if the Professor has created a true jackalope or if Jeremy and Agatha can keep it away from the scary guys in suits or if Jeremy finally passes science with his science fair project! Find this funny middle-grade book at your local library<\/a> or independent bookstore<\/a>.
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/b>: Project Jackalope \/ Emily Ecton. Chronicle Books, 2012.\u00a0 [author’s website<\/a>] \u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My Book Talk<\/b>: Something is breathing in the clothes hamper! Why did Professor Twitchett leave his super-secret project in Jeremy\u2019s bedroom and then disappear? It was one thing to run errands for the Professor, but this note about \u201ckeeping the experiment safe\u201d is crazy. Can it really be\u2026 a jackalope?!<\/p>\n

Jeremy\u2019s idea of a science fair project is Styrofoam planets, but Professor Twitchett downstairs is a real scientist, even if he tries to keep things hush-hush. Mom is allergic to furry things, so Jeremy has to let classmate Agatha in on the secret so she can keep the jackalope in her apartment. When government agent-type guys in suits start questioning everyone in their building, Jeremy knows in his gut that he can\u2019t give them the sharp-antlered rabbit.<\/p>\n

The Professor\u2019s assistant at the zoo research center hasn\u2019t seen him lately, and his desk is suspiciously neat. \u00a0Ditzy old Mrs. Simmons thinks he\u2019s bringing her a dog in a bag when Jeremy hides in her apartment for a minute. The suits show up at the junior high school, intent on getting answers from Jack. Soon Agatha and Jack are on the run, taking the jackalope along, of course.<\/p>\n

How long can they elude the scary guys in suits?
\nWhen will the jackalope start using his cloth-shredding antlers on them?
\nCan jackalopes really imitate human voices to confuse their prey?
\nWhy did the Professor create a killer mutant bunny in the first place?<\/p>\n

When everyone interested in the jackalope arrives at the junior high science fair, the results are epic! (One of 5,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Researchers think up lots of unusual things, like cyborg insects and tracking devices smaller than a grain of rice. Some stay on the drawing board forever and some don’t. So, why not develop a jackalope?\u00a0 Reputed to have a vicious personality, the ability to mimic human voices, and savage killer instincts, jackalopes would make terrible […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,19,51],"tags":[22,4,125,45,20,70,44,46,43,128,15,9,91,21,35,58,8,28],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure","category-fiction","category-mystery","tag-behavior","tag-belonging","tag-blogathon2012","tag-competition","tag-conflict","tag-crime","tag-friendship","tag-funny","tag-growing-up","tag-inventors","tag-relationships","tag-school","tag-science","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-technology","tag-us-author","tag-villains"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5378,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/5378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}