Finn and the time-traveling pajamas /
Material type: TextSeries: The Finniverse ; book 2Publisher: New York : Delacorte Press, 2021Edition: First editionDescription: 275 pagesContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780525646914
- 0525646914
- 9780525646938
- 0525646930
- [Fic] 23
- PZ7.B882323 Fit 2021
Item type | Current library | Home library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Standard Loan (Child Access) | Bookmobile Juvenile Series | Bookmobile | Book | FINNIVERSE BK 2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 50610022844315 | |||
Standard Loan (Child Access) | Hayden Library Juvenile Series | Hayden Library | Book | FINNIVERSE BK 2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 50610022844232 | |||
Standard Loan (Child Access) | Pinehurst Library Juvenile Series | Pinehurst Library | Book | FINNIVERSE BK 2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 50610022844240 | |||
Standard Loan (Child Access) | Rathdrum Library Juvenile Series | Rathdrum Library | Book | FINNIVERSE BK 2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Checked out | 05/28/2024 | 50610022844224 | ||
Standard Loan (Child Access) | Spirit Lake Library Juvenile Series | Spirit Lake Library | Book | FINNIVERSE BK 2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 50610022844166 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
From the New York Times bestselling author of the Sisters Grimm and NERDS comes the second book in an action-packed middle grade series with equal parts humor and heart!
When Finn is saved from the Time Rangers by an older version of himself, it comes with a catch. Old Man Finn needs Finn and his friends, Lincoln and Julep, to help him win battles he lost years ago against the Paradox, a terrible creatures obsessed with revenge against Finn's father. If they succeed, he promises to tell Finn where his father is. He even gives them a pair of time-traveling pajamas to help them with their quest.
There's only one problem. The pajamas malfunction almost immediately. Along the way the kids avoid being eaten by sabretooths, shot by revolutionary war soldiers, and start a war with a town full of holograms, all in an effort to fix the jammies.
Just when their goal is in sight, Julep gets sick. Only...it doesn't seem like she's sick. It seems like she's changing. The adventure may cost Finn more than an old pair of pajamas--it may cost him his friends!
After sixty years of trying to stop Paradox and set the universe right again, Finn time-travels to get help from his nine-year-old self.
Ages 10 and up. Delacorte Press.
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School Library Journal Review
Gr 4--7--This second entry from the "Finniverse" series continues where the first volume left off. Finn is saved from the Time Rangers by an older version of himself. But Old Finn needs Finn to help destroy a terrible monster called Paradox, who is obsessed with revenge against Finn's father. Old Finn promises to tell Finn where his father is, if he agrees to help destroy Paradox. He is given a pair of cowboy pajamas that are actually a time machine, and told not to take them off, or the time line will reset and anything they changed in the past will affect the present. But the pajamas malfunction, leaving Finn and his friends stranded in the distant past and then the far distant future. An amazingly fun romp filled with humor and heart, this is a series that is sure to gain popularity. This installment doesn't stand alone, and readers are better served by reading the series opener. Buckley also throws in nods to classic movies like The Matrix, Back to the Future, and Planet of the Apes. The plot is crafted in such a masterly way; the final twist is devastating, and fans will beg for the next volume. VERDICT A must-buy for middle grade sci-fi fans.--Patrick Tierney, Pascoag P.L., RIKirkus Book Review
Six months after tackling invading aliens in Finn and the Intergalactic Lunchbox (2020), young Finn now takes on a time-traveling monster at the behest of his much older self. A jumble of clever twists and goofy set pieces that never quite coalesce into coherence, the tale sends Finn Foley and buddies Lincoln Sidana and Julep Li on a long series of short time hops to eras past and present--in some of which they participate in or watch running battles between their older selves and an armored monster named Paradox who proclaims a vague intention to destroy time, or rule the universe, or something. Meanwhile, hotly pursuing Time Rangers who dress and talk like cowboys place hastily made clones that look like the trio but act like cats in the present day to serve as stand-ins…to the consternation of Finn's baffled but take-charge little sister, Kate. In the climactic battle, Paradox survives attacks from saber-toothed tigers and armies of Revolutionary War soldiers as well as futuristic energy weapons but unravels at last when Finn reboots the entire timeline. Unfortunately, that puts a number of significant events in the previous volume in the "never happened" category. Their surnames cue Julep and Lincoln as Asian; some Rangers are people of color, and the rest of the cast presents as White. Fun at (ahem) times, but readers of the opener are going to be let down by the revelation that it didn't count. (Science fiction. 9-12) Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.Author notes provided by Syndetics
MICHAEL BUCKLEY is the New York Times bestselling author of the Sisters Grimm and NERDS series and the cocreator, writer, and executive producer of Cartoon Network's Robotomy. He lives in New York City.Visit Michael online at michaelbuckleywrites.com and follow him on Twitter at @michaelwbuckley and on Instagram at @buckleystopshere.
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