Attaboy, Sam [Paperback]

Why won't Sam Krupnik allow his mother to enter his bedroom? Why has he started calling his toy boxThe Lab? And why does he carry a Ziplock bag in his pocket al all times?What's the big secret?Well, his mother's birthday is approaching, and she has told her family that what she really wants are homemade gifts. Sam has decided to invent a special, surprise perfume just for her--a concoction that will combine all of her favorite smells. Now the question is: Exactly how does one go about bottling the quirky collection of scents on Mrs. Krupnik's list of favorites? If anyone can find a way--or at least have loads of fun trying--it's Sam, Anastasia's precocious younger borther.

In this second book about Anastasia Krupnik's younger brother, Sam concocts a perfume made of his mother's favorite smells to honor her request for only homemade gifts for her birthday.

Warm, lively, true to children's real inner lives, and laugh-aloud funny all the way. Kirkus Reviews with Pointers

Lois Lowryis the author of more than forty books for young adults. She has received countless honors, among them the Newbery Medal for two of her novels,Number the StarsandThe Giver. Ms. Lowry divides her time between Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a 1769 farmhouse in Maine. Visit her website atwww.loislowry.com.

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What on earth are you doing, Sam?” Mrs. Krupnik stood in the doorway staring at her son. Sam looked up.
 
 Moms are sometimes very strange, he thought. They always ask what you are doing, even though they canseewhat you are doing.
 
 Once, when he was younger and naughtier, Sam had found it interesting to unroll toilet paper. He knew that he wasn’t supposed to. But every time he wandered past the bathroom and glanced in and saw that roll of paper hanging there, with its enl#%