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Mr. Radagast Makes an Unexpected Journey
A class of seventh graders, bored by Mr. Radagast's lesson on the nature of reality, apply their lesson by making their teacher disappear
85 pages, Library Binding
First published January 1, 1981
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June 26, 2018
"One moment, Mr. Radagast, most unpopular teacher in Mayfair Junior High, was standing in front of this fourth-period class. The next moment, he was gone."
Perfectly put-together middle school teacher, Mr. Radagast (I imagine him being named William X. Radagast) introduces his science class to the theory of immaterialism, and then he pays dearly for that lesson when his class thinks him out of existence!
I loved this book as a child and had been searching for a copy for y-e-a-r-s. Finally, I mooched one from a fellow member on Bookmooch and I read it as soon as I got in from the mailbox!
Two of Radagast's students, Conrad and Damon volunteer to go rescue their poor put-upon teacher. But where exactly do you go when you're thought out of existence? And how do you make it back once you're there?
Sharon Nastick writes a smart, suspenseful sci-fi story for beginning chapter book readers with classic illustrations by Judy Glasser. I loved the book in the 80s and I love it still today (Cue nostalgic violins now). I just wish there was a longer version available - I want to know more about what happens in the "nothing"!
Perfectly put-together middle school teacher, Mr. Radagast (I imagine him being named William X. Radagast) introduces his science class to the theory of immaterialism, and then he pays dearly for that lesson when his class thinks him out of existence!
I loved this book as a child and had been searching for a copy for y-e-a-r-s. Finally, I mooched one from a fellow member on Bookmooch and I read it as soon as I got in from the mailbox!
Two of Radagast's students, Conrad and Damon volunteer to go rescue their poor put-upon teacher. But where exactly do you go when you're thought out of existence? And how do you make it back once you're there?
Sharon Nastick writes a smart, suspenseful sci-fi story for beginning chapter book readers with classic illustrations by Judy Glasser. I loved the book in the 80s and I love it still today (Cue nostalgic violins now). I just wish there was a longer version available - I want to know more about what happens in the "nothing"!
December 12, 2009
My favorite book to read as a child. Might just develop it into a short animated film. Very imaginative for an 85 page book.
December 24, 2013
It's hard to honestly review this book because I haven't read it as an adult, but I can't understate how ridiculously influential this story was on me as a little kid. I read it over and over and over again and just obsessed over the idea and the eerie illustrations. I don't want to read it now that I'm grown up, because it had such a strange power over my young brain and I'd hate to lose that-- but it clearly pushed me in the direction of loving strange, thoughtful, imaginative sf stories.
June 4, 2018
I remember loving the weekly reader series, but even so; i remember a lot of the books being, well, dull. This is very much one of the dull ones.
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