Brendan Buckley has developed a question notebook because of the encouragement of his fifth-grade teacher. He calls the notebook, 'Brendan Buckley's Book of Big Questions About Life,the Universe and Everything in It.' He has questions like, Do centipedes really have 100 legs? and Do boys fart more than girls? He answers the questions in his notebook by putting up his EXPERIMENT IN PROGRESS sign on his bedroom door and using his scientific methods to answer the questions. Brendan loves collecting rocks. One day on a visit to the mall with his grandma Gladys, Brendan stops to talk to a man with a rock collection display named Ed DeBoses. Grandma Gladys is shocked when she sees him talking to the man and ushers him away. Brendan pieces information together and discovers that this man is his grandpa(his mother's father) that he has never met. In his notebook, he writes down the questions he has about why he hasn't ever met his grandpa. Try as he may, Brendan just can't answer these questions. Just as he is about to give up and try to forget about Grandpa Ed, answers and forgiveness come!
Awards nominated: 2013 Bluestem Nominee
Date read: 6/8/2012
ISBN-10: 0385734395
ISBN-13: 9780385734394
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