Melonhead (Melonhead #1)
Katy Kelly, illustrated by Gillian Johnson
Delacorte, 2009
$12.99, Hardcover
978-0385734097
March 26th, 2012
Genre:
Realistic, School Story
Age: 8+
Description:
Adam “Melonhead” Melon likes to invent things so when his school is participating
in Challenge America!
he gets excited because his school is challenged with taking old materials and
inventing something new from them. He decides to partner up with his best
friend Sam but they find a lot of their ideas are failures. Try and try again
they must but will they be able to come up with something worthy of an entry?
Opinion:
Out of the nearly 300 books I’ve read this year (most for my Materials 5-8 and
Materials for Tweens classes) this is one of the books I hated the most. For me
it just dragged on and on. Most of the plot actually had nothing to do with
their inventions. For something that is so supposedly integral to the plot it
certainly took a backseat to the boys’ antics. For instance, we read about
Melon getting his foot caught in a tree knot, the boys finding a snake and
Melon first losing the snake’s dinner (mice) and then the snake itself in the
house, Melon getting yelled at for his short cut home (running on the tops of
many roofs!), and so on. The boys’ actual invention finally appears with there
is about 20 pages left in the book and it is so detailed it seems to go on and
on even though you’re almost done with it. This is one book I couldn’t wait for
it to be over. I won’t be reading any of the sequels.
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