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Calvin Coconut : Trouble Magnet
Graham Salisbury
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As summer ends in Hawaii and the new fourth grade school year begins, Calvin finds he is having trouble staying out of trouble! His pet centipede escapes in Mrs. Purdy's classroom, he spills juice on a bully's t-shirt, he forgets to pick up his little sister, and he accidentally takes a run-away kite board for an unexpected sail.

He gives up his bedroom to Stella, the sullen fifteen-year-old daughter of his mom's friend. To make matters worse, he is forced to move into a
storage room! Stella gets even harder to live with when Calvin accidentally locks her in the bedroom.

Although Calvin tries to be the man of the house, all he really wants to do is have fun on the beaches of his Kailua hometown, but that it is not as easy as it sounds. Can Calvin stay out of trouble?