The hilarious first book in an all-new illustrated middle-grade series starring young inventor Rube Goldbergnow in paperback Grab a wrench, flip a switch, and get ready to spring into this all-new, sidesplitting illustrated series featuring a young master of machinesRube Goldberg! With summer gone too quickly, Rube must finally face what hes been dreading all vacation: middle school! Hes not ready for new classes, new people, new everythingand its really taking a toll on him. With his anxieties in full gear, all Rube wants to do is do what he does best: invent! When Principal Kim announces that the school is going to throw a Contraption ConventionCon ConRube is ready to show off his skills and get out of his funk! But things just cant seem to go right for Rube: He gets banned from Con Con, his friendships are strained, and weird, ghostly incidents begin to throw the town into total chaos. But Rube has a big solution to every little problem, and hes ready to get back on track, solve the ghostly mystery, and come up with something brilliant before its time to face the judging table!

 

 

This book is part of a book series called Rube Goldberg And His Amazing Machines .

There are 256 pages in this book.

It is aimed at Young Adult readers. The term Young Adult (YA) is used for books which have the following characteristics: (1) aimed at ages 12-18 years, US grades 7-12, UK school years 8-15, (2) around 50-75k words long, (3) main character is aged 12-18 years, (4) topics include self-reflection, internal conflict vs external, analyzing life and its meaning, (5) point of view is often in the first person, and (6) swearing, violence, romance and sexuality are allowed.

This book was published in 2022 by Abrams .

Jennifer George is the granddaughter of Rube Goldberg. She is the author of The Art of Rube Goldberg and a jewelry and clothing designer. George lives in New York City. Ed Steckley is an award-winning illustrator whose clients include MAD magazine. He is a sought-after advertising artist and is on the board of directors at the National Cartoonists Society. He lives in Queens, New York. BRANDON T. SNIDER writes books about Transformers, Minions and even Batman! When he's not writing superhero stories, he's either on TV or eating as much cheese as possible in order to unlock cheese-related superpowers-which is not working.