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The Dragon Players (2009)

by Frank Cammuso(Favorite Author)

4.07 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0439903238 (ISBN13: 9780439903233)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

GRAPHIX

series

Knights of the Lunch Table

review 1: When an accident leads to destruction of Ms. Dagger's property, Artie and his pals are scheming to come up with $300 to help cover the repairs. A Robot Battle offers them the chance to win the money they need and gain a few bragging rights. I love the way this series features complicated plot twists that all work out in the end. Even the smallest insignificant detail comes into play somehow in the conclusion.Recommended for grades 3-5.
review 2: I didn't like this one as well as I did the first one. Part of the reason is that the contest between the robots isn't very realistic - and it could have been. When the engineering school of the local university where I used to live held its Engineering Open House, they held a competition between teams that built robo... morets. But it was a series of challenges that the robots had to negotiate, such as climbing up a ramp, picking up a ping-pong ball, taking that ball to a funnel and dropping it in the funnel, etc. A fight to destroy the other robot only works between two robots - and there were more than two robots entered. It makes for violence and a battle, but it doesn't make a good contest. I was also less than fond of the other sub-plots - the bully breaking the airplane and throwing the remote controller in the junk yard. The principal, who is also a bully, getting the $300 at the end. She deserved it, as the kids had damaged her car, but it felt more like a payoff than a pay back for damage done. The kids are still likable, the art good, and the story interesting, but I am more ambiguous about this one. less

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