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Lunch Lady And The Bake Sale Bandit (2010)

by Jarrett J. Krosoczka(Favorite Author)

4.18 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0375867295 (ISBN13: 9780375867293)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Knopf Books for Young Readers

series

Lunch Lady

review 1: This novel is a great way to get students who do not like to read because this book has a lot of action and illustrations. The story starts off with a grumpy bus driver Brenda. She doesn't like the students making her bus all dirty but changes her attitude in front of the principal. The Breakfast Brunch, Dee, Hector and Terrence, realize that the bus driver is not very nice. At the school there is a bake sale going on to fund the students' trip to the museum. Lunch Lady is in charge of the bake sale, but has to leave all the baked goods to sign for taco shells. Lunch Lady and Betty, Lunch Lady's assistant, come back and see all the baked goods are gone! The students might not be able to go on their field trip if Lunch Lady doesn't find out who stole all the baked goods. Th... moree principal tells the students that the field trip is off because someone stole all the items the students had brought earlier this morning. The students were very upset, except Mrs. Chalahan who teaching health and says that eating sweets is very bad for you. The Breakfast Bunch wants to find out who had stolen all the cupcakes. Lunch Lady and Betty are trying to do the same thing! The Breakfast Bunch gets in trouble because Orson, a fellow student who is the safety patrol officer, tells on them. The Breakfast Bunch then decide to skip detention and go try and find the culprit anyway! They get caught by Orson...and then they all get caught by a mystery person who takes them on a bus to a secret location. The Lunch Lady is close behind! The students find out the the person who stole all the baked goods was Brenda the bus driver because all those cupcakes were going to get her bus dirty! And she didn't want to drive the students to their field trip because it would put wear and tear onto the schoolbus. The Lunch Lady comes to the rescue of the children and fights with Brenda..but Brenda had created Buszilla and Lunch Lady has to become creative with how she deals with Brenda. Luckily Betty and the Breakfast Bunch pelt Brenda with cupcakes and justice is served. The next day they had the bake sale and were able to book their field trip but at the very end Brenda has taken over the secretary's spot and is going to try to ruin the students field trip.I think that this novel would be great for students to read on their own because it is a quick and easy read, but it has a lot of action and mystery! This would be good to entice students who do not like to read. I think that this book would be great as an independent read or a class read aloud for older students. I think that the cover makes students know that the book is filled with action. For this reason I think students would like to pick the book from the shelves. Even though, the illustrations are simple they convey what the rest of the story is about. The illustrations in the novel were like an old comic book! This would really appeal to the students, both boys and girls. I like how the illustrations were only done in yellow, black and white. I believe that this gave an old comic feel. Also it was a creative way to draw the reader's attention around the page. The illustrations were done in simple drawings, which I thought benefited the story line. Even though, the illustrations were drawn in a simple manner they still had enough detail to describe the story. I think that if there were more complicated drawings it would have taken away from the novel. I think this book would be great to read aloud once for the class, but then let the students read on their own the next book in the series.
review 2: The bake sale bandit was one that had a lot of mystery. This one wasn't predictable at all. I mean you have so many suspects. I truly believed the janitor did it. Then you find out who did and ou think wow that was not the person I suspected. I honestly thought wow this person is crazy well at least they are not in the right state of mind. This one I loved because of the mystery. My son would tell you in his five-year old talk. "Oh Wow it has a dinosaur!" This book was a great addition to the series. less

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