Allen Kurzweil Books In Order

Leon Books In Order

  1. Leon and the Spitting Image (2003)
  2. Leon and the Champion Chip (2005)

Novels

  1. A Case of Curiosities (1992)
  2. The Grand Complication (2001)

Non fiction

  1. Potato Chip Science (2010)
  2. Whipping Boy (2015)

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Leon and the Spitting Image

Leon and the Spitting Image is about a hotel full of animals. It’s about an evil ice maker. It’s about glass eyeballs and human catapults. It’s about really old panty hose and Possibly Fake Hair. But mostly it’s about Leon Zeisel and his epic quest to survive fourth grade. What’s stopping him? Two things. First, there’s Miss Hagmeyer. She’s a supernaturally strict teacher with ears that resemble giant rotting mushrooms. And then there is Leon’s archenemy, Lumpkin the Pumpkin, a human tank with a deadly dodgeball throw known to all as the sidewinder. Luckily, Leon has two friends, Lily Matisse and P.W., who will stand by him no matter what even if his magical, mysterious plans for rescue and revenge involve…
SPIT!

Leon and the Champion Chip

Leon’s back. Having survived the sweatshop methods of Miss Hagmeyer, his needle wielding fourth grade teacher at the Classical School, Leon braces himself for fifth grade. He arrives armed with a backpack full of pens and pencils, binders and notebooks…
plus a rag doll that’s the spitting image of Henry Lumpkin, the bully who has Leon in his sights. If the doll works the way it’s supposed to, Leon and his buddies P.W. and Lily Matisse won’t have to worry about Lumpkin the Pumpkin!

Better still, Leon has a fabulous new teacher, Mr. Sparks, who conducts science experiments using that most miraculous of research materials the potato chip. And a good thing, too. Mr. Sparks’s lab work will come in handy when Leon is forced to take on Alphonse ‘The Chippopotamus’ Cipollini at the annual Chipapalooza! Chip Off.

Once you’ve sunk your teeth into Leon and the Champion Chip, the hilarious sequel to Leon and the Spitting Image, you’ll never eat potato chips the same way again!

A Case of Curiosities

In France, on the eve of the Revolution, a young man named Claude Page sets out to become the most ingenious and daring inventor of his time. In the course of a career filled with violence and passion, Claude learns the arts of enameling and watchmaking from an irascible, defrocked abb , apprentices himself to a po*rnographic bookseller, and applies his erotic erudition to the seduction of the wife of an impotent wigmaker. But it is Claude’s greatest device a talking mechanical head that both crowns his career and leads to an execution as tragic as that of Marie Antoinette, and far more bizarre. Hailed by critics for the shimmering brilliance of its inventions and its uncanny fidelity to the textures of the past, A Case of Curiosities places Allen Kurzweil securely in the ranks of the finest literary artists of our time.

The Grand Complication

With a boss threatening to exile him to driving a bookmobile in Amish Country and a headstrong wife whose erotic pop up books fail to revive the couples lost intimacy, Alexander retreats to a world of private annotation. Enter Henry James Jesson III, a collector with an improbably literary name, who shares a number of Alexanders unconventional interests. Soon, Jesson hires Alexander for some after hours research. As his search advances, the librarian realizes there are many more secrets in Jessons life than the ones found in his dazzling Manhattan salon.

Potato Chip Science

Snack on science! Make a science of snacks! Potato Chip Science is the book and kit that’s an irresistible introduction to science for 8 to 12 year olds. Here are 29 incredible experiments plus one edible project that use potato chips, potatoes, potato chip bags, tubes, and lids. Included in the bag are a 96 page two color book and a dozen items that kids can use for the following snacktivities :Bag Blaster Bird Feeder Chipmobile Chip Analyzer Chip Ship Challenge Chip Tube Gobbler Color Wheel Compass Composter Confetti Can non CSI Detective Kit Dancing Chips Electric Wave Flipper Hydrofoil Kissing Tubes Kite Mini Extermi tater Potato Bender Potato Chip Crunchies Potato Battery Saucer Tosser Shrunken Potato Head Signal Mirror Sound Spinner Spud Crud Spuddy Buddy Walkie Talkie WindmillProduct Features: 96 page book providing step by step instructions Bag that can be turned into a kite, compass, or hydofoil Digital sound chip that plays Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star…
powered by a potato! spud not included 6 inch propulsion pipe that launches spud pellets 50 feet! Biodegradable starch base makes a great Chipmobile chassis! 6 optical stickers 6 chip lids the wheels of the Chipmobile! Spud powered digital clock once again, potato not included 4 zinc and copper electrodes Googly eyes Yeah! Wire connectors Eco friendly starch knife to carve the Spuddy Buddy and Shrunken Potato Head Packing chips used as ammunition for the Confetti Can non!Manufactured in the United States of America. Potato Chip Science received the Gold Medal from The National Parenting Publication Awards, and a Gold ‘Brain Child’ Medal from Tillywig.

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