Zeke Meeks vs the Putrid Puppet Pals

by D. L. Green, Josh Alves (Illustrator)

Overview

Instead of playing at recess, Zeke Meeks' classmates have been sitting around, staring at their boring Puppet Pals. Will Zeke join them, even though he has no interest in this playground craze?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781404879645
Publisher:	Capstone
Publication date:	03/01/2012
Series:	Zeke Meeks Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	743,781
File size:	10 MB
Age Range:	7 - 10 Years

About the Author

D.L. Green lives in California with her husband, three children, silly dog, and a big collection of rubber chickens. She loves to read, write, and joke around.
Josh Alves is an illustrator who gets to create in his studio in central Maine. As a husband and father, he constantly draws inspiration from his family. He loves humor, wit, and anything that gets your thinker thinking.

Table of Contents

Very, very, very wrong — Really, it's just dog drool — Evil in a pink dress — Waggles the vampire slayer — Don't blink or you'll miss the part where I'm a hero — The dark, insects, my sisters, and other scary things — Rare, valuable, and yucky

Editorial Reviews

2013 Creative Child Award, Preffered Choice Award

Creative Child magazine

Readers who prefer an easier-to-read option to the Wimpy Kid series will find Zeke Meeks' comic responses to the tribulations of life as a third grader amusingly familiar. Silly Bands are a thing of the past for Zeke and his buddies. Fueled by relentless television commercials, a new craze has infiltrated his school: Puppet Pals. Puppet Pals are collectible finger puppets, complete with their own paraphernalia, which keep Zeke's friends busy during class, on the playground or after school. Zeke is left to play with--shudder--the kissing girls at recess because everyone is busy with puppets. Hilarious first-person narration gets the details of third-grade life right: the illogic of fads, the power of trend setters and the lengths some kids will go to belong. This chronicle of the arc of a grade-school obsession is funny, and readers will laugh when thinking about the trends that are undoubtedly racing through their schools. Brief paragraphs, familiar, humorous situations and frequent cartoon illustrations make this especially easy to read and will lead to laugh-out-loud moments for second- and third-grade readers. Short, choppy sentences and an excess of silly will put this in the same category as Captain Underpants: painful for teachers and parents to listen to, but this book is not for them. Zeke has a good chance at becoming a popular fad for new readers. (Fiction. 7-10)

Kirkus Reviews