The Marvelous Inventions of Alvin Fernald

8 year old grandson son LOVED it! Just the right amount of intrigue, adventure and humor!!

Meet Alvin, 12, and inventor. His little sister, 8, whose real name is Daphne is also known as Pest! What is the Sure Shot Paper Slinger? Who is Mrs. Huntley? Who are the two baddies looking for the hidden money? Enjoy the many inventions that Alvin creates and the escapades Shoie, Pest and Alvin get into.A good read for youngsters. Thanks, Liz

Enjoyed these books as a child, hoped to hook my nephew on, but that didn't go so well. He likes more action and monsters, which is what am trying to steer him away from. I still like these books, though. They are tender stories of life in a small town, complete with paper boys, inventions that actually work , helping your neighbors, and plenty of personal initiative.

Loved this book when I was a kid. Gave it to my son. It makes him happy too. Good laughs.

I have a good friend who teaches fifth grade, they are having an invention week coming up soon. When she told me about it I remembered this book from when I was in the fifth grade, it inspired me to invent. I took a chance and found it online and ordered a copy for her and she has been reading it to her class and they love it! I visited her class when they were about half way through the book and when asked "who already has an idea for an invention?", at least three quarters of them emphatically raised their hands. This is a fun book and very well written, I highly recommend it or any one of the books in the Alvin Fernald series.

My girls enjoyed the storyline as much as I did when I was a little boy.

I was consumed from the the beginning. To be honest, I`ve even taken to copy the Pest`s habit of repeating words. When my mum first got me this book, I thought it would so boring. But as usual, I was proved wrong by the same method that made me read Caddie Woodlawn. I was making breakfast when she started to read it to me out loud. It was great! I soon devoured it and read three more books: Alvin Fernald Mayor for a Day, Alvin Fernald`s Incredable Buried Tresure and Alvin`s Secret Code. Cliford Hick`s Alvin Fernald series is a entertaning family book series for all readers great and small. 5 stars.

While you might think of this book as having a "boy" slant, our girl loved it too (she didn't even mind the references to "The Pest"). It is imaginative, fun and full of adventurous twists--the kids were begging for more. So we got "Alvin's Secret Code" and "Foreign Trader," two more gems. I'd get those before "Incredible Buried Treasure," which has some unfortunate violent parts (very uncharacteristic of the Alvin series).