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Smells Like Treasure (2011)

by Suzanne Selfors(Favorite Author)

4.27 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0316043990 (ISBN13: 9780316043991)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

review 1: When Homer Pudding gets an invitation in the mail, he is understandably thrilled since it contains his invitation to join a secret society of adventurers and leave his father's goat farm behind. But Homer must prove himself in order to claim his uncle's chair in the society, and even with the help of Dog, his secret weapons, who can sniff out treasure, it won't be easy to defeat another rival for the chair. The book is filled with adventure and moments of peril, but Homer keeps his wits and remains courageous as he competes with his friend to figure out the clues that the two have been provided to solve the mystery. Since this is the sequel to Smells Like Dog, readers might enjoy the second title more after reading the first one. I liked watching Homer gain in confidence a... morend never lose sight of his goal even when the odds seemed against him.
review 2: Smells Like Treasure by Suzanne Selfors is the second book about Homer Winslow Pudding and his treasure-sniffing basset hound named "Dog". The first book was Smells Like Dog.You don't need to read the first book to enjoy this second one, but you'll want to! Homer is a great admirer of his recently deceased Uncle Drake, a member of the secret society LOST (Legends, Objects, Secrets, and Treasures). When Homer receives a letter from the society offering him a chance to become a treasure hunter himself, he is super excited! He can't tell anyone though...it's definitely a secret that Dog can only smell one thing -- treasure!(Treasure really means "something that someone desperately wants".) Everyone else thinks Dog is an enormous nuisance. Just wait 'til you see what kind of trouble Dog causes for the Pudding family when they attend the Milkydale County Fair.Fortunately for Homer, his prohibition from the Fair means he is at home when Zelda arrives in her cloudcopter. (A cloudcopter is a helicopter that looks like a bunch of pipes sticking out everywhere. It has no doors and the steam that powers it means it is always hidden in a cloud.) Together Zelda and Homer devise a plan for Homer to attend the required meeting of LOST for his induction into the society.Once Homer arrives at Zelda's though, things begin to go wrong. The worst of those things is the appearance of Homer's scrappy friend, Lorelei. Lorelei has devised a plan to become the new member of LOST herself. Since there can only be one new member, Lorelei and Homer must compete against each other for the membership. The challenge is to find the membership coin. Homer knows Dog can sniff it out, but so does Lorelei. She already "borrowed" Homer's dog before so he's going to make sure it doesn't happen again!Homer and Dog's adventures are funny and suspenseful and a delight to read. less

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