I am posting about
Melonhead this week on MMGM.
By Katy Kelly
illustrated by: Gillian Johnson
Delecorte Press
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.
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Janet Smart on Creative Writing in the Blackberry Patch.
