I’m looking for a book for my sister. It was in elementary school, and she said the book had an orange cover and it was about a boy?child? who transmitted radio waves through his dental fillings.
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My version had a blue cover, but could it be Fat Men from Outer Space by Daniel Pinkwater?
Probably Fat Men from Space, by Daniel Pinkwater. The boy gets a filling and starts receiving broadcasts from alien ship about to invade Earth, and the aliens turn out to be fat men who eat all our junk food. I think the boy learns to tune the radio using the metal spiral from a notebook.
‘Fat Men from Space’ by Daniel Pinkwater (1977).
Maybe everyone else is correct, but if not, I remember a similar detail from ELBERT THE MIND READER by Barbara Rinkoff, Scholastic TX1276. There were two different covers, but this is the Scholastic paperback one I remember:
https://www.google.com/search?q=Elbert:+The+Mind+Reader+by+Barbara+Rinkoff,+TX1276&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjrpN_5473UAhXGHT4KHVBlB0oQ_AUICigB&biw=1536&bih=760#imgrc=XvaIcJJjfhA79M:
Are you looking for The Trouble With Jenny’s Ear? little girl receives radio waves through her orthodonture that tells her the answers to a quiz show contest.
THANK YOU! Yes, it’s Fat Men From Space. Now I’m going to purchase it so my sister has it for her birthday. She’s gonna LOVE it!