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Racing against the clock, shy middle-school student Lily and her best friends, Katie and Jasper, must foil the plot of her father's conniving boss to conquer the world using an army of whales.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Anderson, M. T.
Other Authors:	Cyrus, Kurt (Illustrator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, c2005.
Edition:	1st ed.
Series:	Pals in peril #01
Subjects:	Adventure and adventurers > Juvenile fiction. Science fiction > Juvenile. Best friends > Juvenile fiction. Whales > Juvenile fiction. Scientists > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary:	Racing against the clock, shy middle-school student Lily and her best friends, Katie and Jasper, must foil the plot of her father's conniving boss to conquer the world using an army of whales.
Item Description:	M.T. Anderson's Thrilling tales."
Physical Description:	188 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Audience:	Ages 10 and up.
ISBN:	0152053409 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9781442407015
Author Notes:	M. T. Anderson was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on November 4, 1968. He was educated in English literature at Harvard University and Cambridge University, and received his MFA in Creative Writing from Syracuse University. He primarily writes picture books for children and novels for young adults. His picture books include Handel, Who Knew What He Liked; Strange Mr. Satie; The Serpent Came to Gloucester; and Me, All Alone, at the End of the World. His young adult books include Thirsty, Burger Wuss, and Feed, which won the L.A. Times Book Award for YA fiction in 2003. He also writes the series A Pals in Peril Tale, and The Norumbegan Quartet. Anderson Won the 2006 National Book Award in Young People's Literature for The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 1: The Pox Party. His title Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad, was a finalist for the 2016 YALSA-ALA Award for Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction. (Bowker Author Biography)