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Lunch Lady And The Cyborg Substitute (2009)

by Jarrett J. Krosoczka(Favorite Author)

3.91 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0375846832 (ISBN13: 9780375846830)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Knopf Books for Young Readers

series

Lunch Lady

review 1: Lunch Lady was not the best book I've read but it wasn't terrible. It was about a lunch lady who fights crime. In this book she discovers that a teacher is creating robot teachers so he can win the teacher of the year award. But the lunch lady and her assistant (another lunch lady who works in the school) put a stop to it. Three kids also get suspicious and follow the lunch lady to find out what she is up to. When they fell into danger with the robots, the lunch lady was there to save them.
review 2: This book really opened my eyes to the new world of graphic novels. I was pleasantly surprised that they were a very easy and entertaining read. The story starts off with 3 students pondering about the school lunch lady. Something seems off with her. They wonder ab... moreout her personal life, speculating she is probably a crazy cat lady. The reader then finds out that the lunch lady along with her sidekick in and outside of the cafeteria, Betty, fight crime. The cafeteria utensils double as crime fighting weapons. A teacher takes off and has a very suspicious substitute. We soon find that the substitute is a robot with an evil plan to get the Teacher of the Year Award. There is a also a more subtle lesson in bullying engrained in the novel.I would have my students create a new cover for this book, maybe draw the way they would imagine a crime fighting lunch lady. I could post their covers on the wall for display. My class could then create their own comic strips about whatever they would like. I would print off the template with a minimum of ten slides so they can really develop their story. I would read this aloud to my class but I would also expose my ESOL students to graphic novels, especially this book. The words were not very difficult and the pictures really tell the story. They could see the relation between the picture and words. There was a lot of onomatopoeia which any student could understand. I think the humor of the story also makes it a little more inviting to English language learners.Awarded: Children's Choice Book Award for Third Grade to Fourth Grade Book of the Year (2010)Grade Level: 3rd-4th grade. less

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