Full name: Star Jumper: Journal of a Cardboard Genius

Author: Frank Asch Year: 2006 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science fiction, Children, Fantasy Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781553378860 9781553378877 1553378865 1553378873

Self-proclaimed genius inventor Alex is convinced that his little brother Jonathan is evil. The kid never shuts up. He's a klutz, and he drools on his pillow when he sleeps. Jonathan's specialty, though, is sticking to Alex like glue -- and sticking his nose into his big brother's business. That's why Alex has to leave Earth and fly so far away that no one will ever be able to find him. Using cardboard, duct tape, old odds and ends and his amazing scientific imagination, Alex builds Star Jumper, a spaceship that will deliver him from his rotten little brother forever! It's a plan only a cardboard genius could ever hope to pull off. But Jonathan has other ideas -- and a secret that ultimately brings forth Alex's most brilliant creation ever! Similar books: Gossamer by Lois Lowry Archer's Goon by Diana Wynne Jones Genesis by Ken Lozito The Homeward Bounders by Diana Wynne Jones Commune: Book One by Joshua Gayou Bold by Mike Shepherd Red Shift by Alan Garner Unleashed in Space by Alexander Steele At the Speed of Light by Simon Morden Star Ka'at World by Andre Norton What Came from the Stars by Gary D. Schmidt Shanji by James C. Glass Dogsbody by Diana Wynne Jones Echo McCool, Outlaw Through Time by Roger K. Driscoll M Is for Magic by Neil Gaiman The Forgotten Door by Alexander Key Alan Mendelsohn, The Boy From Mars by Daniel Pinkwater The Silver Crown by Robert C. O'Brien Hexwood by Diana Wynne Jones A Tale of Time City by Diana Wynne Jones