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This book is now fully illustrated by Charles Geer. It features nine new illustrations covering sixteen pages, including Jaspar Okeby dumping a load of watermelons on Colonel March\u2019s car!<\/p>\n

\u201cMay there always be \u2018Mad Scientists\u2019 among us!\u201d
\n\u2014Homer Hickam, author of Rocket Boys<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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The whine of jet engines thunders from above as the giant Air Force bomber makes its approach to Westport Field. Suddenly, the citizens of Mammoth Falls are startled to see the bomb bay doors open and an object drop down, down, directly into Strawberry lake. Splash!<\/p>\n

And what is that object? Why a bomb, what else? Not just a common, ordinary, conventional bomb, but an atomic bomb! But that\u2019s just the beginning of the latest (actually the first) madcap adventure \u2014 book-length this time \u2014 of that outrageous, notorious threat to municipal sanity known as The Mad Scientists\u2019 Club. 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