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When they discover an old TV that plays tomorrow's programs, fourteen-year-old Annabel and her fifteen-year-old friend Boris try to use it to help mankind and earn money to renovate Boris' eccentric mother.Tags
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This is the book in the middle of Freaky Friday and Summer Switch, that I didn't know existed . It's a cute time travel plot where Ape Face fixes a TV that then gets the news from tomorrow, Boris tries to use it to make money, and Annabel worries about how to stop disasters she knows are going to happen.
The big denouement is a bit saccharine and uncomfortable... Boris has thrown away his mother's life and made over the apartment, and then she lectures him about how he doesn't know what's best for her, and he should accept her the way she is, and they all sob and say they love each other. It's a bit weird in a parent/child relationship...
The big denouement is a bit saccharine and uncomfortable... Boris has thrown away his mother's life and made over the apartment, and then she lectures him about how he doesn't know what's best for her, and he should accept her the way she is, and they all sob and say they love each other. It's a bit weird in a parent/child relationship...
A boy's invention makes him a billion dollars.
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Mary Rodgers was born in Manhattan, New York on January 11, 1931. She attended Wellesley College, where she studied music, but she left before graduating to get married. While at Wellesley, she wrote numerous songs. A dozen were published in 1952 under the title Some of My Best Friends Are Children. In 1957, she met composer Leonard Bernstein, who show more hired her to help write and produce the television shows of Bernstein's New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts, a job she held for more than a decade. She wrote the music for Once Upon a Mattress, Hot Spot, and the off Broadway revue, The Mad Show. She also wrote a musical for television entitled Feathertop. She wrote children's books including Freaky Friday, A Billion for Boris, The Rotten Book, and Summer Switch. Freaky Friday was adapted into a movie starring Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster in 1976 and a remake movie starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan in 2003. She died of heart failure on June 26, 2014 at the age 83. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- A Billion For Boris
- Related movies*
- Billions for Boris (1984 | IMDb)
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- Fiction and Literature, Children's Books
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ7 .R6155 .B — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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- Catalan, English, French
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- ISBNs
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