Payne, M.D. MONSTER
JUICE: Fear the Barfitron (183 p.) and MONSTER JUICE: Fartsunami (187 p.).
Grosset and Dunlap, 2013. $5.99. Content: Language G (0 swears); Mature
Content: G; Violence: G.
While volunteering
at a retirement home filled with crazy old monsters, Chris Taylor discovers he
needs his friends to help him find and recover Lebensplasm. He
believes that the director of the retirement home has taken it and he wants it
back. Recruiting his friends to aid in his search, trouble ensues
in the shape of thousands of Sussuroblats (very large roaches). They surround
the Zombies, Werewolves, Vampires and Witches and suck their life blood. The
boys come up with a plan that includes a lot of Barfing and a Gravitron they
call the Barfitron. Do they run or fight back?
If readers like
monsters and bugs, this will be a fun readable book for upper elementary and
some middle school students. There’s a little scary and lots of
humor. Reading this as a read-a-loud would be a fun classroom activity.
Another in the
Monster Juice series, Fartsunami will send Chris and his friends on a class
field trip to a paradise island, once again saving those crazy monsters from a
deep sea nightmare. Something silent but deadly comes bubbling up from the
beneath the ocean and only Chris and his friends can help by launching and all
out gas fest. EL - OPTIONAL JMLozano, Teacher
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