The Gumazing Gum Girl! Gum Luck

by Rhode Montijo, Luke Reynolds, Rhode Montijo (Illustrator)

Overview

With her new powers, Gabby Gomez is living a dual life. Keeping her Gum Girl heroics a secret from her parents is not easy. Maybe it's time to come clean? But there's a new villain in town, and the city needs her!

Get ready for more flavored-packed action as Gum Girl takes on a devious chef who's cooking up evil plans. It's another exciting adventure with the ever-elastic, super-stretchy superhero, Gum Girl!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781423161370
Publisher:	Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Publication date:	03/06/2018
Series:	The Gumazing Gum Girl! , #2
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	160
Sales rank:	247,099
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.40(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	6 - 8 Years

About the Author

Rhode Montijo received a BFA in illustrations from California College of the Arts, and published Pablo's Inferno, a five-issue indie comic series. He wrote and illustrated Cloud Boy and The Halloween Kid. Rhode also illustrated Lynn Rowe Reed's Benny Shark Goes to Friend School, Greg Trine's Melvin Beederman, Vicky Rubin's The Three Swingin' Pigs, and Gary Soto's Lucky Luis. Stick Together is the fifth book in the Gumazing Gum Girl! series. Rhode lives in Los Angeles, California.

Luke Reynolds taught public middle and high school for many years before joining the Education faculty at Endicott College. Luke is the author of many books for kids, and his favorite flavor of gum is strawberry banana! He currently lives in Massachusetts and invites you to visit him at lukewreynolds.com

Editorial Reviews

PRAISE FOR CHEWS YOUR DESTINY

"...a welcome[d] addition to the ranks of early-elementary superkids."— BCCB

PRAISE FOR CHEWS YOUR DESTINY

"Perfectly paced and bursting with laughs..."— Kirkus

From the Publisher

05/01/2017
Gr 2–4—With her new powers, Gabby Gomez finds herself constantly switching between her secret and real identities. As a result, she is having a hard time juggling everything she has going on. To top it off, Gabby has a cavity, she has yet to tell her gum-hating dentist dad about her secret identity, and she's running low on gum, since her brother got into her stash. Meanwhile, she has a new archnemesis, RoboChef. Scorned on public television for tripping over gum, he naturally hates Gum Girl and is bent on taking over the world. Can Gabby stop him before it's too late? Will she ever tell her parents about her secret identity? The illustrations in this book are detailed and comic book—like. The characters are fairly well developed for an early chapter book, and the humor adds depth to the story. The plot is unique and engaging. However, some attempts at inserting Spanglish are more successful than others. VERDICT Fans of superheroes, strong heroines, and comic books will love this title. Although readers don't necessarily need to have read the first book, Chews Your Destiny, it is recommended that they do so.—Kira Moody, Whitmore Public Library, Salt Lake City

School Library Journal

2017-03-29
Gum Girl is back in this second adventure.Since her last adventures, Gum Girl (aka Gabby Gomez) has been celebrated as a hero by everyone. Everyone, that is, except the people who matter most: the members of her own loving, Latino family, who don't know she's Gum Girl! As Gabby get ready to reveal her secret identity, her dentist dad despairs about the tooth problems that Gum Girl's poor example will inspire. Poor Gabby's troubles worsen—she may have a cavity from all that gum! But even that's not the end of Gabby's problems: a gum-hating "mysterious masked man" is plotting to bring Gum Girl down. Meanwhile, when Gum Girl isn't busy saving the day, Gabby is busy running from white bully Natalie, whose depiction as a large girl disappoints. Many school-, cavity-, and gum-related adventures later, Gum Girl faces off with the "mysterious masked man" and his giant robot, which she, unsurprisingly, vanquishes. Most illustrations are black and white, with energetic, bubble-gum-pink accents. The plot is fairly shallow and sometimes ridiculous, but it is aware of at least some of that silliness, which perhaps redeems it a bit of the lack of depth. Short chapters and frequent, graphic novel-esque illustrations make this a shoo-in for reluctant readers, and the text is punctuated by the occasional italicized word in Spanish. Good, sticky fun. (Fantasy. 6-10)

Kirkus Reviews