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allen_h's review against another edition
1.0
Did not care for this at all. And there's a hint of another one at the end of this book. I guess I prefer his historical fiction better than his humor.
brucefarrar's review
4.0
After the excitement and fame of surviving a two-hundred-and-fifty foot dive off a dam, Steven Carter’s father still expects him to do his chores. This included shovel the snow off his sidewalk and drive and do the same for his neighbors on either side of his house AND get up at four in the morning to get started on it! If that wasn’t bad enough his Presidency of the Flint Future Detective Club is being challenge by the newest member, the smartest girl in his elementary school, Richelle Cyrus-Herdon. The humiliation is almost unbearable.
Fortunately, there’s a thrilling distraction. Club Secretary Russell Woods’s new dog Rodney Rodent has disappeared into an alternate universe beckoned on by the evilest looking winking gnome on the famous Vernor's Ginger Ale mural next to the Halo Burger in Flint, Michigan. The Flint Future Detectives are on the case and on the chase right through mural and into what they discover is called Ourside by its residents. The first resident they meet is their old friend, Mr. Chickee!
It’s another marvelously silly adventure from the pen of Christopher Paul Curtis, and I wish he’d write some more.
Fortunately, there’s a thrilling distraction. Club Secretary Russell Woods’s new dog Rodney Rodent has disappeared into an alternate universe beckoned on by the evilest looking winking gnome on the famous Vernor's Ginger Ale mural next to the Halo Burger in Flint, Michigan. The Flint Future Detectives are on the case and on the chase right through mural and into what they discover is called Ourside by its residents. The first resident they meet is their old friend, Mr. Chickee!
It’s another marvelously silly adventure from the pen of Christopher Paul Curtis, and I wish he’d write some more.
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