Meet Axel Feinstein he's the brainiest boy ever! Alex Feinstein is better at maths than a calculator. More scientific than a lab full of technicians. And definitely cleverer than his class teacher. But being brainy can be dangerous - especially when there's a mad master-criminal on the loose, and on the lookout for some spare brainpower. Soon Sigmund Babble is hot on Axel's trail, and he's armed with his incredibly sneaky Brain Drainer.

 

This book features in the following series: Axel Feinstein, Young Hippo .

There are 64 pages in this book. This book was published 2002 by Scholastic .

Lizzie Finlay is the illustrator of A Tale of Two Wolves (Flying Foxes 2002). She studied Illustration at Exeter College of Art and has published a number of picture books, including Sam's First Day (Mantra 2000) and Buri and the Marrow (Mantra 2000). Her line drawings appear in I'm Telling You (Cambridge Young Writers Award, CUP 2000) and Write Here Write Now (DfEE/CUP 2000). This is her second book for Random House. Alan MacDonald lives in Nottingham. He writes both non-fiction and fiction as well as writing for radio and TV. He has a particularly good track record for writing page-turning and accessible historical books.