Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder

Written by Jo Nesbo · Translated by Tara F. Chace · Illustrated by Mike Lowery

Book #1 in the Doktor Proktor series

A fart powder sends kids soaring, but can they keep it safe from evil hands?

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265 pages· 33,783 words· Est. 4.5 hour read

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Bookroo's summary

New kid Nilly teams up with quirky Doctor Proctor and clever Lisa to create a fart powder that makes them school heroes. But when an industrial-strength version threatens to fall into the wrong hands, they must protect it from neighbors with sinister plans. Can they keep the explosive secret safe, or will it launch them into unexpected trouble? Join this hilarious adventure filled with mischief, magic, and a dash of danger.

From the publisher

Bestselling Norwegian mystery author Jo Nesbø enters the world of children’s books with Doctor Proctor’s Fart Powder, the first book in this very funny middle-grade series. Filled with magic, wit, and bathroom humor, Doctor Proctor will keep boys and girls laughing until the end. Eleven-year-old Nilly is new to the neighborhood, but he is quick to make friends: Doctor Proctor, an eccentric professor who invents wacky potions and powders; and brainy Lisa, who is always teased by the twin terrors Truls and Trym. All is good farty fun when Nilly and Lisa help Doctor Proctor develop his latest invention, a powder that makes you fart. The powder makes Nilly and Lisa VERY popular at school when they sell it for 50 cents a bag. (And they get revenge on Truls and Trym by giving them an extra-strength dose of fart powder that shoots them up into a tree!) But when Doctor Proctor creates an industrial-strength version that can send people to outer space, the kids must go to great lengths to protect the invention and keep it out of the hands of their neighbors, who want to use the powder for evil purposes. In the spirit of Roald Dahl and Lemony Snicket, Doctor Proctor offers a winning combination of humor, adventure, and absurdity that kids (of all ages) will love–proving that Jo Nesbø can keep you on the edge of the seat and make your sides split in equal measure.

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