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  1 Oliver and the Seawigs
Author: Reeve, Philip Illustrator: McIntyre, Sarah
    Series: Not-so-impossible tales, #1
 
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Class: Fiction
Age: 7-10
Language: English
LC: PZ7.R255
Grade: 2-5
ISBN-13: 9780385387880
LCCN: 2013043653
Imprint: Random House Books for Young Readers
Publisher: Random House
Pub Date: 07/22/2014
Availability: Out of Stock Indefinitely
List: $12.99
  Hardcover
Physical Description: 193 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm. H 7.5", W 5.38", D 0.7", 0.725 lbs.
LC Series: Not-so-impossible tales
Brodart Sources: Brodart's For Youth Interest: Popular
Brodart's Fresh Reads for Kids TIPS Selections
Brodart's Insight Catalog: Children
Brodart's TOP Juvenile Titles
Bibliographies: Children's Core Collection, 22nd ed.
Children's Core Collection, 23rd ed.
Children's Core Collection, 24th ed.
Awards: Horn Book Guide Titles, Rated 1 - 4
Starred Reviews:
TIPS Subjects: Humorous Fiction
Animals
Oceanography
BISAC Subjects: JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / General
JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / Marine Life
JUVENILE FICTION / Humorous Stories
LC Subjects: Adventure and adventurers, Fiction
Explorers, Fiction
Humorous stories
Islands, Fiction
JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / General
JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / Marine Life
JUVENILE FICTION / Humorous Stories
Mermaids, Fiction
Missing persons, Fiction
SEARS Subjects: Adventure fiction
Explorers, Fiction
Humorous fiction
Islands, Fiction
Mermaids and mermen, Fiction
Missing persons, Fiction
Reading Programs: Accelerated Reader Level: 5.6 , Points: 3.0
Lexile Level: 830
Reading Counts Level: 5.4 , Points: 6.0
 
Annotations
Brodart's TOP Juvenile Titles | 07/01/2014
Oliver looks to a nearsighted mermaid and an ill-tempered albatross for help when the boy's explorer parents vanish. Now Oliver and his new friends must thwart a group of dangerous sea monkeys and take on a dastardly sea captain as they take to the high seas in search of Oliver's parents. 208pp., Color Ill.
Journal Reviews
Horn Book Guide | 05/01/2015
3. Ten-year-old Oliver's parents never returned from exploring an unusual archipelago of islands. He searches for them with help from a talking bird; a mermaid in need of spectacles; and a kind, sentient wandering island, encountering an army of sea monkeys and insult-spouting seaweed along the way. A joyous, original new adventure series filled with quirky characters, buoyant illustrations, and plenty of laughs. py. 197pg. THE HORN BOOK, c2015.
Kirkus Reviews | 04/15/2014
Receiving help from a nearsighted mermaid and a self-propelling island with self-esteem issues, a young lad sets out to rescue his explorer parents. Having spent all 10 years of his life climbing mountains and exploring trackless jungles with his parents, Oliver Crisp is well-equipped to chase after the Thurlstone, an evil floating island that has added his mom and dad to its elaborate crown of sea wrack. It's one of the Rambling Isles, on its way to the Hallowed Shallows for the Night of the Seawigs, a celebration held every seven years to give the islands a chance to show off all the stuff they've collected. Fortunately, another peripatetic island, this one so mild-mannered it hasn't got a name, befriends Oliver. Together with Iris the mermaid and a sniffy albatross, Oliver and the newly named Cliff set out to get Oliver's parents back. Before the rescue can come off, though, Oliver must stand up to the smart-mouthed seaweed of the Sarcastic Sea, get past an army of green furred, hyperactive sea monkeys spilling "down the Thurlstone's face like a river of snot," and face like unusual challenges. McIntyre illustrates Reeve's sly and dashing tale with simply drawn cartoon monkeys (lots of monkeys) and other figures peeking in from the margins or tucking themselves between passages of text. Readers' ribs aren't the only ones that get a vigorous tickle in this aquatic escapade. (Fantasy. 8-10). 224pg. KIRKUS MEDIA LLC, c2014.
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