MMGM - Melonhead

I am posting about Melonhead this  week on MMGM.

By Katy Kelly

illustrated by: Gillian Johnson

Delecorte Press

2009

Last week I posted about Lucy Rose which is also written by Katy Kelly.

You might say this is a spinoff of the Lucy Rose books. I like Melonhead and there were a few laugh out loud passages in the book. He is 10 years old and always having one adventure after another. It starts out with Melonhead (Adam Melon) getting his foot stuck in a hole in a tree and getting his  rescue shown on the Channel 5 News.   Another adventure has his mouse, which is to be a meal for his pet snake, escape inside his house and then the snake escapes. Now he has two animals, that his mom  doesn't  know about, to find before they find her.

He loves to invent and Melonhead and his friend Sam enter the school's invention fair. After many ideas that didn't work out, will their Rescuer invention win? Read to the end to find out.

Melonhead comes in at 29,469 words.

For more middle grade fun, check the links on

Shannon Messenger's Blog. 

 Posted by Janet Smart  on Creative Writing in the Blackberry Patch.

MMGM - Lucy Rose

Lucy Rose

Here's the Thing About Me

by Katy Kelly

Delacorte Press

2004

Synopsis: This story is about an 8 year old girl who leads an eventful life.
Her parents are separated and her and her mom moved from Michigan to Washington D.  C. to live near her grandparents, Madam and Pop. Her teacher asks her how she is doing and she says, "Well, a little okie-dokie." He then makes a deal with her. He says he will  eat his hat if things don't get better for her the next month. Well, come November she tells her teacher, Mr. Welsh, to hold off on eating his hat because October got better in the nick of time. She becomes best friends with Jonique and neither one of them can stand Adam Melon, who she calls Melonhead.

Fun facts: She likes palindromes, her grandma (Madam), who is also named Lucy Rose, writes an advice column for a newspaper and she often anonymously emails her for advice.

Lucy Rose is quite the character, I think you'll like her. It comes in at 23,555 words.

For more middle grade fun, check the links on

Shannon Messenger's Blog.

Posted by Janet Smart   on Creative Writing in the Blackberry Patch