Rob Thomas
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Rob Thomas
Winner of two National Science Fairs for his work on plant life, thirteen-year-old Grady Jacobs isn’t exactly Mr. Popularity. But he doesn’t care. He’s spending the summer with the famous botanist Dr. Phillip Carter in the Amazon jungle trying to save the rain forest with a new species of super trees. Although his duties are mostly relegated to kitchen patrol, Grady stumbles on a startling discovery: a binary system of sounds that enables him to control the movement of trees.
Even as Grady discovers the tree language, he realizes that Carter’s super trees…
Doing Time: Notes from the Undergrad
Rob Thomas
Doing Time: Notes from the Undergrad is a collection of ten short stories by acclaimed author Rob Thomas, detailing the experiences of students fulfilling their requirement for graduation: 200 hours of community service. Thomas runs the gamut of possible projects, from the traditional—volunteering in a nursing home or at the public library—to the innovative—directing a drama program for “at-risk” junior high students or spending 24 hours in a Bowi-a-thon. Set in and around the familiar halls of Robert E. Lee High, and including a few characters readers…
