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Title: Fun kid adventure
Review: I remember enjoying this book very much when I was a kid in the fourth grade. Rereading it I see the writing isn't really superb but the story (and cartoon illustrations) create many memorable images and the whole thing is still a fun, breezy ride, from the same author who brought us the "Matthew Looney" sci fi books. When kid inventor Bob Fulton creates a machine in his garage to make a single bottle of soda pop fill the cups of the whole town, the machine explodes. However, the explosion has created a new hybrid substance that has even greater scientific implications. Soon the government and an amusing array of spies are out to get the secret formula, and Bob and his sea captain father must do everything they can to keep it out of the wrong hands. This story has a comic touch and a pleasing premise that kids will remember long after reading it.
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