[LM_NET] BOOK: The day my butt went psycho! by Griffiths

[Frederick Muller <mullinator52@GMAIL.COM>]

Griffiths, Andy. The day my butt went psycho! Scholastic, 2001
[978-0439-42469-1 // 0-439-42469-0]
One night Zach's butt disconnects from him and runs away.  To accept
the premise of this story you have to accept that butts can disconnect
from people and run away with their own legs and arms.  Zach chases
his butt only to find that he is organizing other butts to take over
the world.  Zac joins some butt catchers to stop this evil plot. They
end up on an island with the "butt"cano about to explode.  Griffiths
uses every possible way to incorporate butts into the story.  It gets
kind of tiring after a while (now realize this is said by someone
whose favorite birthday present was a fart CD.)  The adventure of this
207 page book ends up exciting, but as a whole I just found this book
silly.  That is not saying it won't be read.  Kids who are into
bathroom humor (and we all have plenty of them) will flock to this
book.  When some kids saw the book on my desk, three 8th grade boys
told me that they have already read it. To top this all off, there are
at least two more in the series - note that this book is a complete
story.  Do you want to get it?  That is up to you but it may draw some
kids that you usually don't see -- isn't that what we want?

-- 
Frederick Muller, Librarian
Halsted Middle School Library
Newton, NJ
mullinator52@gmail.com
My book reviews are compiled at http://www.mullersreviews.com
My book review blog is at http://MullerInTheMiddle.blogspot.com

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