Download or read book Archer and Zowie written by Hans Bluedorn and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hans Bluedorn has encapsulated childhood imagination at its fullest."-- DeAnna Squire, Reedsy Author of The Fallacy Detective has written again. This time, he tackles friendship and self-esteem for kids using his comedy-of-the-absurd humor. This is a middle-grade sci-fi story about Archer and Zowie Two mismatched kids who build a spaceship from a treehouse and travel into deep space. They are chased around a nebula by a giant space bug and crash on a planet. Then, get into a big argument about who's fault it was and how they will get home. It's also about the mysterious Teleportee a device so strange it can crumple up and chew on the whole universe in one googlebillionth of a second. Over the course of this book, Archer and Zowie will battle dark matter, babysitters, teleporting microwave ovens, penguin aliens, and even the author of this book to come out on the other side...still friends. The right friends can free us to be ourselves. Children will learn: Astronomy, geography, physics, and other bits of science. Vocabulary to feed the imagination. Friendship. Being friends with somebody who sees the world differently is hard, but rewarding. Self-esteem and identity. Learning to see yourself and like who you are. Archer and Zowie has the character of Beverly Cleary's Romona Quimby, with the wild imagination of Douglas Adams' Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Other inspirations were Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes, Madeleine L' Engle's A Wrinkle in Time and C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia.