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EVERYTHING CAN BE USED AGAIN! That's Dawson's motto. He collects junk that people throw away and turns it into something STUPENDOUS. But when Dawson uses his skills to create a machine to do his chores for him, he discovers he might have invented something a little too... AWESOME. Can he stop the rampaging robot before it destroys the entire town? Chris Gall inspires kids to reuse, repurpose, and recycle in this inventive adventure about a boy superhero who turns trash into treasures--and saves the world while he's at it!
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Oh my! I got this book way, way back last spring, when my library assistant was out with back trouble. I ended up hurriedly cataloging it and sending it out in the world without getting a chance to read it. And it was checked out so much that I never was able to really get time to read it myself.
Well, it finally got checked back in and I sat down yesterday to read it.
Oh my! What a great book! I see why it's been checked out so much. Our title character is a scavenging inventor, always rooting around to find new things to add to an invention. His latest attempt at an invention goes haywire, growing larger and larger, and sucking up more and more of the world, until the entire universe is threatened with destruction. Dawson must come to the rescue with a new idea in order to save the world.
Great book. And how serendipitous it was for me to have a parent come into my school library a half hour after I read Awesome Dawson and tell me that her son loved to invent things....Would I have a book about that? Do I ever?!