By: Ace Hansen Genre: Fiction, comedy Age Group advised: 3-5th grade Summary: When a mysterious green gas crisis breaks wind, the Global Air Group (GAG) offers a million-dollar prize to the first person to discover the cause. Julius Caesar Brown dreams of winning the cash so he can pay off Jake the Snake, the blackmailing bully who threatens to ruin his chances with the cutest girl in fifth grade. But Julius can barely pass a math test, let alone solve an international scientific mystery. What he needs is money. Fast. His mom volunteers him to help the Zombie Lady. Yeah. The crazy woman down the street who every kid knows eats boys’ brains. But Miss Crabtree’s no zombie. And winning the million-dollar prize may not be as far-fetched as Julius once though My Review My Rate: 2 . 8/5 stars The Plot I wanted to start this of by saying this isn't an ordinary review. I didn't find it far to review this book from a logical thinker's viewpoint when this book was so not intended for over thinkers for me, so what I did was I let my little brother read this book and tell me what I thought, but it also isn't fair for me not to review this book, so I'm going to write a review from my standpoint and his. (this is my review write now that you are reading). First of all I found it kind of weird/original that this book was based of off farts. I sort of understand that the book is supposed to contain childish humor but I didn't get the jokes that I think were jokes. There were a little tid-bits which did bother me, first of all these are 6th graders, I don't know where Ace Hansen lives but in America 6th grade is middle school, so why would the characters be going to Hoover Elementary, and I do know 6th graders and some are immature but I don't think they would be so immature as to throw up over gross pictures, maybe shield their eyes but NOT throw up. I feel like Ace was trying to foreshadow by talking about Space Pop's a lot and being very specific about the fact that they kept selling out of it at stores, but in the first 30 pages of the book I already knew that the victim of the Green Gas was the Space Pops. The Characters To me, this book was full of stereotypical characters. We have Millie, classic annoying younger sister with a humongous crush on her brother's best friend, but if Millie is the younger sister of 6th graders why would she be on the Middle School bus, wouldn't she be with the Elementary kids? Maybe you guys know something about this that I don't. What I did like about this book is that you take the classics, the kid being bullied, the beautiful girl you want to go out with, the old lady down the street, and you combine all of it into one book, that's amazing. The character's names stumbled me a little bit, Ace talks about how their mom named them after Roman leaders because she loved her trip to Italy, the only thing is, is that this is only mentioned once and not even repeated again. Another tid-bit I also didn't like how Ivy was mad at Julius for one picture, it wasn't even that bad. The only bad thing about that picture was that it made her throw up, that picture definitely shouldn't cause a large grudge against Julius. Would I recommend this book to others? Honestly, It depends what age group these people are. If these people are past 5th grade then I would highly suggest against this book. Some people might say that this book is for all ages but I kind of feel like this book would be a little immature for people over the age of 10, but the only thing might be the length of the book, which might be a little strenuous for kids under 10. My Brother's Review The Plot (This actually took me a while to explain to my little brother). My brother apparently liked the idea of the green gas and actually made him laugh a lot, although he did said that he could guess that the reason behind the green gas was the space pops, so again as I mentioned earlier, not good foreshadowing. The Characters According to my brother, he liked Julius (sorry I couldn't get more from him) and that's all he really had to say about the book. (3rd graders, huh?) Would he recommend it? He said he would recommend it to his friends because it make him look "smarty" because how long it was. Honestly, my brother's reading skills are advanced, which is why he could probably get through the lengthy book. His Rating 4.2/5 Stars
3 Comments
Julia
2/9/2014 03:16:30 am
I actually thought that this book was for anyone
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Mikayla
2/9/2014 03:16:47 am
I totally agree with what you said
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Justine
2/9/2014 03:17:01 am
Ive never read this book
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