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From Wikipedia's page for the author: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WilliamP%C3%A8neduBois Peter Graves (1950): A well-meaning but mischievous boy who encounters a gentlemanly and not-very-mad scientist named Houghton Furlong. Furlong is the inventor of an antigravity material named Furloy, and a Furloy-based invention called "the ball that bounces higher than the height from which you drop it." In an unfortunate accident with the latter invention, Peter destroys Houghton's house. Little of value is left in the wreckage except six balls of Furloy, each about the size of a tennis ball, with an…
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4 editions- Hardcover · English · 1950Viking Juvenile · 9780670549429
- Hardcover · English · 1950Viking Juvenile · 9780670549436
- Other · English · 1991Puffin · 176 pages · 9780140347845
- Other · English · 1974World's Work · 168 pages · 9780437348210
Children's storiesJuvenile FictionScience FictionGravitation, fictionChildren's fiction