title: The Accidental Spaceship
author:  Gene Hunt 
description: Grade 4-6 Thirteen-year-old twins Vernon and Junior Smith have been raised by their fossil-hunting Grandpa on a Pennsylvania farm. When he takes off to Antarctica, the brothers look forward to being left in charge especially when an enormous spaceship lands behind the house. A deliveryman hands them a receipt for it, made of a thin metal film that cannot be crumpled or bent without popping back into its original shape, and says it's theirs. Exploring the ship, the boys discover a device that teaches them how to speak any language in the universe. The ship also contains a haughty but helpful robot that can calculate a faster-than-light trajectory that will take them anywhere they want to go, in 14 minutes. They're ready to blast off when an aggressive, gun-toting tax collector appears at the door, demanding over a million dollars in sales tax for the rocket they've obviously just purchased. Hunt tells the story with his tongue in his cheek, and some of the dialogue is clever, but the plot and characters rarely rise above the ho-hum.<i> Walter Minkel, New York Public Library</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  The SHOX Gene Variant
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Book 3 – The Antares Codex Series
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Bob Cooper
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are
  the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any
  resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely
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  All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions
  thereof in any form whatsoever. Published in the United States by PingMe
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  Copyright © 2019 by Bob Cooper
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Thanks to my editor, Alexis Powers, for all the technical expertise she
  provided and to my wife, Viola, for her many hours of proofreading and
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  The shuttle was late