For the elementary age kids in your life, bestselling author Frances O'Roark Dowell has donated autographed hardcover copies of the books in her boy scientist Phineas L. MacGuire series: Phineas L. MacGuire Erupts!, Phineas L. MacGuire Gets Slimed!, and Phineas L MacGuire Blasts Off!

Phineas L. MacGuire...Erupts!, from Amazon: Here's what you need to know about Phineas L. MacGuire, boy-scientist extraordinaire, aka Mac: 

1. He's allergic to purple, telephone calls, and girls, and can prove it.

2. He's probably the world's expert on mold, including which has the highest stink potential.

3. He does not have a best friend. He does, however, have an un-best friend, who he does not -- repeat, not -- want to upgrade to best friend status. 

But disaster strikes when his teacher pairs Mac and his un-best friend together for the upcoming science fair. Worse, this un-best friend wants the project to be on dinosaurs, which is so third grade. Worse still, it seems as though everyone else in his class finds the un-best friend as unlikeable as Mac does. But, being a boy-scientist, once Mac notices this, he just might have to do some investigating....

Phineas L. MacGuire...Gets Slimed!, from Amazon: Phineas L. MacGuire—a.k.a. Mac—aims to be the best fourth-grade scientist ever. It’s a tall order, but he’s confident that he can achieve his goal, especially since Aretha has asked him to help her earn a Girl Scout badge by creating the mold that produces penicillin. How many fourth graders can say they’ve reproduced penicillin? None, as far as Mac knows. And who knows more about mold than Mac? But soon Mac is busy managing Ben’s campaign for class president and dealing with his weird new babysitter. How can he focus on mold?

Phineas L. MacGuire...Blasts Off!, from Amazon: Houston, we have a problem! Phineas L. MacGuire (a.k.a. Mac) has a lot to learn about outer space if he’s going to be the best scientist in the fourth grade. To get the knowledge he needs, Mac is determined to go to space camp, but his mom says he has to earn the money himself. Houston, we have another problem: a gigantic, slobbery dog named Lemon Drop. Mac can earn the money he needs by walking Mrs. McClosky’s yellow Lab—but how will he survive the walks? Good thing Mac is a scientific genius with friends like Ben and Aretha. Together the three of them discover that Lemon Drop is no ordinary dog—in fact, the pup is a real-life “Lab”oratory.

Frances O'Roark Dowell is the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of Dovey Coe, which won the Edgar Award, Where I'd Like to Be, the bestselling series The Secret Language of Girls, Chicken Boy,Shooting the Moon, which was awarded the Christopher Medal, and Falling In. She lives with her husband and two sons in Durham, North Carolina.

These books are true collectibles and will be treasured by kids, grandkids, or any kids for years to come.