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Howie Bowles, Secret Agent
by Kate Banks
ISBN: 0374335001
ISBN-13: 9780374335007
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
Howie Bowles wants to make friends at his new school and starts telling the kids some pretty cool-but exaggerated-stories about his life as a super-spy agent. Everyone thinks he's an amazing detective who can easily solve the latest mystery in school. Now Howie is known as Agent Bean Burger, and he's not so sure how to get out of this mixed-up mess! This chapter book includes black-and-white illustrations.
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Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Published date: 1999
Size: 5.75 x 8 inches
Weight: 0.46 pounds
Ages: 3 to 4
Pages: 89
Synopses
Third-grader Howie Bowles copes with having to change schools twice in one year by pretending to be a secret agent named Agent Bean Burger.
Publisher's Notes
It's hard for Howie Bowles when his family moves to a new town -- what if the kids at school don't like him? "Just be yourself" is his mother's advice, but wouldn't it be easier to be somebody else? Howie doesn't plan on making his classmates believe that he's actually a secret agent named Agent Bean Burger, but somehow that's what happens. Soon everyone is interested in him because he's a secret agent, and it's sort of like having friends, except that the other kids still don't know anything about Howie. And then a case comes along that he has to solve: someone's been spitting out their gum in the drinking fountains at school. In short chapters with snappy dialogue and winning pictures, this is a fast-paced story of a likable, worrisome boy -- a boy who finally does solve the case (it's the principal!), so Agent Bean Burger can take a vacation and Howie Bowles can be himself.
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Howie Bowles, Secret Agent
Kate Banks
A very nice ex-library copy. Barely used. All pages and cover clear and bright except for a few library markings. Mylar over dustjacket. Binding solid and tight. Softly worn around corners and edges. No creases. ( more information) Offered by Once Sold Tales (United States)
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Kate Banks
A beautiful ex-library copy. Barely used. All pages and cover clear and bright except for a few library markings. Mylar over dustjacket. Binding solid and tight. No creases. There is a small spot of writing inside the front cover. ( more information) Offered by Once Sold Tales (United States)
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Howie Bowles, Secret Agent
Kate Banks Isaac Millman
A nice ex-library copy. Gently used. All pages and cover clear except for a few library markings. Mylar over dustjacket. Binding solid and tight. No creases. ( more information) Offered by Once Sold Tales (United States)
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Howie Bowles, Secret Agent
Kate Banks Isaac Millman
A beautiful ex-library copy. Barely used. All pages and cover clear and bright except for a few library markings. Mylar over dustjacket. Binding solid and tight. No creases. Purchasing this item supports the Sno-Isle Libraries Foundation. ( more information) Offered by Once Sold Tales (United States)
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Howie Bowles, Secret Agent
Banks, Kate
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Frances Foster Books, 1999 RELIABLE library withdrawal in the plastic, protective cover. Stamped at the page edge with the card pocket removed from the inside last blank cover page leaving a mark. Light scuff to the plastic cover. This edition is PRESENTABLE!. Good. ( more information) Offered by The Yard Sale Store (United States)
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Kate Banks
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). Used - Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! ( more information) Offered by Better World Books (United States)
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Howie Bowles, Secret Agent (Qty: 2)
Banks, Kate
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). Hardcover. 0374335001 New - Has remainder mark. Fast shipping from trusted wholesaler with many exclusive publisher contracts. . New. ( more information) Offered by Sort Floor Books (United States)
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Howie Bowles, Secret Agent
Banks, Kate
N.y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999. A very good copy with a very good dust jacket.. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Isaac Millman. ( more information) Offered by Trolley Line Books (United States)
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