The Outlandish Adventures of Liberty Aimes

By Easton, Kelly & Swearingen, Greg

Publishers Summary:
Everyone has a destiny. Sometimes it takes an adventure to find it.Liberty Aimes has spent all of her ten years captive in her parents' crooked house on Gooch Street. Her spry father, Mal Aimes, is a crook who sells insurance, while her overweight mother sits at home in front of the TV, demanding that Liberty cook nonstop. Liberty’s only knowledge of the outside world comes from the secret stash of children’s books and fairy tales she discovers beneath the floorboards. One day, Liberty enters her father’s forbidden basement laboratory. There she discovers a world of talking animals and magic potions. With the aid of one such potion, Liberty escapes into the world in search of her destiny.From the Hardcover edition.

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School Library Journal

Reviewed on August 1, 2009

Gr 3-6 Ten-year-old Liberty has never been let out of her decrepit house on 33 Gooch Street, and her massively obese mother, Sal, doesn't dare leave either. Only Liberty's dreadful father, Mal, a self-described "friggin' genius," comes and goes. As Liberty discovers one day, he really is a genius (the evil sort) and has invented, among other things, potions for communicating with animals and for levitati...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Horn Book Guide

Reviewed on January 1, 2009

After poking around her self-described "friggin' genius" father's laboratory, Libby finds herself able to communicate with animals--and in posse...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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