Welcome to the online home of Phineas L. MacGuire! The fourth adventure of Phineas — a.k.a. “Mac” — hit the shelves of grocery stores in April and is called Phineas L. MacGuire…Gets Cooking! It was published in three parts in boxes of Cheerios! breakfast cereal, and will be released in regular hardback format in November. If you want to buy earlier books starring Phineas L. MacGuire, head on over to our page.
After a six-month run in Cheerios! breakfast cereal boxes, the latest adventure of Phineas and his friends is now available in stores and online. In Phineas L. MacGuire Gets Cooking, Mac applies his science skills to culinary creations after his mom gives him a new chore: cooking dinner every night. He may be a genius, but he knows nothing about following a recipe. A pinch? A dash? A smidge? This doesn’t seem very scientific. A pound of spaghetti? Salt on brownies? Lemon in biscuits? The recipes look a little funky but he better get up to speed if he and his friends are going to win the $10,000 Bake-Off prize.
If you are a kid wanting to read about science, head straight to . You’ll find articles about everything from space stations to whale poop. There are experiments you can as well as things . You might want to get started with our guide to . The page features headlines from around the web, so you’ll find the latest and greatest information about breaking science stories there.
There are three earlier Phineas adventures available in paperback, so please visit our page to learn about Phineas L. MacGuire…Erupts!, Phineas L. MacGuire…Gets Slimed! and Phineas L. MacGuire…Blasts Off! Award-winning author started the Phineas series when her oldest son, Jack, became an enthusiastic reader but was too young to read her other books, such as Dovey Coe, which won the Edgar Award, and Shooting the Moon, which won the Christopher Award:
I decided to write one I thought he and his friends would like, and since he’s pretty interested in scientific matters, I decided to write a book about a kid who’s a serious scientist. It was fun for me and Jack to try out the experiments that Mac (aka Phineas L. MacGuire) does in the book. When Jack got older, his younger brother Will became my scientific ‘partner in crime.’
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