5 Novels: Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars / Slaves of Spiegel / The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death / The Last Guru / Young Adult Novel
5 Novels -Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from MarsSlaves of SpiegelThe Last GuruYoung Adult NovelThe Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death
5 Novels -Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from MarsSlaves of SpiegelThe Last GuruYoung Adult NovelThe Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death
show less
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780374423292 (0374423296)
Publish date: September 30th 1997
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages no: 656
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Young Adult,
Childrens,
Humor,
Funny,
Comedy,
Literature,
Juvenile,
American,
Middle Grade,
Contemporary
If you constructed elaborate genetic algorithms designed to produce the perfect book to delight an 11-year-old me, this is the book you would end up with.
I was going to write that Pinkwater is not your normal young adult author and then I got to thinking--what is your normal young adult author? Lewis Carroll had his thing for photographing young girls, C.S. Lewis was a bit of a hermit, Roald Dahl played with perversity (if you think his children fict...