ATHENEUM BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS • An imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division • 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10020 • www.SimonandSchuster.com • This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. • Text copyright © 2014 by Frances O’Roark Dowell • Illustrations copyright © 2014 by Preston McDaniels • Jacket design by Sonia Chaghatzbanian • Jacket illustrations copyright © 2014 by Preston McDaniels • All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. • ATHENEUM BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS is a registered trademark of Simon & Schuster, Inc. • Atheneum logo is a trademark of Simon & Schuster, Inc. • The Simon & Schuster Speakers Bureau can bring authors to your live event. For more information or to book an event, contact the Simon & Schuster Speakers Bureau at 1-866-248-3049 or visit our website at www.simonspeakers.com. • Book design by Sonia Chaghatzbanian • The text for this book is set in Garth Graphic. • The illustrations for this book are rendered in pencil. • Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data • Dowell, Frances O’Roark. • Phineas L. MacGuire . . . gets cooking! / Frances O’Roark Dowell; illustrated by Preston McDaniels.—First edition. • p. cm.—(From the highly scientific notebooks of Phineas L. MacGuire) • Summary: “Phineas has a new chore of cooking dinner every night, but his kitchen experiments take a turn for the worse when the school bully takes a huge liking to Phineas’s brownies”—Provided by publisher. • ISBN 978-1-4814-0099-2 (hc.)—ISBN 978-1-4814-0101-2 (eBook) • [1. Cooking—Fiction. 2. Science—Experiments—Fiction. 3. Bullying—Fiction. 4. Schools—Fiction. 5. Friendship—Fiction.] I. McDaniels, Preston, illustrator. II. Title. • PZ7.D75455Phg 2014 • [Fic]—dc23 • 2014008463