Blast from the North (Lug Series)

by David Zeltser

Overview

After saving his clan from saber-toothed tigers, Lug the caveboy has become a hero. The only problem: between the nightmares and his sudden skittishness around animals, he doesn't feel like much of a hero. But now he and his friends, Stony and Echo, have even bigger problems. A giant glacier is rolling toward their village—faster than any ordinary mass of ice should move—and it's on course to crush the whole settlement! Maybe Blast, the mysterious northern boy who lives on the glacier, can help Lug's clan. Or maybe it will be up to Lug to save the day again, whether he's ready to or not.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781512418699
Publisher:	Lerner Publishing Group
Publication date:	12/28/2022
Series:	Lug Series , #2
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	164
File size:	11 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

David Zeltser is the author of the Lug series, Ninja Baby, Stinker, and The Universe Ate My Homework. He studied physics at Harvard and was fortunate to co-author a paper with the world renowned physicist Howard Georgi. Now David writes children's books, graphic novels, and screenplays and lives with his family and many barking sea lions in Santa Cruz, California. Follow him on Twitter (@davidzeltser) and at www.davidzeltser.com.

Editorial Reviews

"This delightful series serves up laughs and action throughout. Fans of the previous tale will enjoy this outing . . ."—School Library Journal

From the Publisher

2016-05-14
Art-loving cave lad Lug again saves his clan (and several others too) from the twin menaces of climate change and bad guys.As if the arrival of snow and saber-toothed tigers in series opener Dawn of the Ice Age (2014) weren't upsetting enough, here comes a mountain of ice moving with suspicious speed and precision toward the homes of the Macrauchenia Rider and Boar Rider clans. Riding out atop friendly mammoth Woolly to investigate, Lug and pals find both a glacier riddled with tunnels and Blast, a weirdly white-skinned frozen boy who, when thawed out, offers the glacier as a mobile shelter for the threatened locals. But the sight of exiled thug Bonehead working with Blast hints that all is not as it seems—and indeed, the whole setup turns out to be an ongoing scheme to rob prehistoric communities of their livestock. Can Lug stop Blast and his cronies (and the glacier), free the captive villagers imprisoned at the mountain's bottom, and maybe even rescue the cub that Blast has kidnapped to keep the resident polar bears in line? Natch! By the end all's made right, he's found a new friend in equally artistic Boaga (described as "dark-skinned" with "frizzy black hair and almond-shaped eyes"), and even lost at least some of his pathological fear of animals. Gerardi dresses modern-looking kids in crude furs for the cartoon illustrations. Stone-cold predictable but with enough silliness to keep sliding along. (Fantasy. 9-11)

Kirkus Reviews