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Summary
Summary
A girl doesn't have a date for the school dance--until her dad makes one for her in his lab. "Lily--meet Stitchy." A family enjoys a nice Thanksgiving dinner--until they are interrupted by a torrent of turkeys out for revenge. A princess meets a pea-brained suitor. And the battle of two red hot pepper weenies ends in flames.
Critically-acclaimed author and master of the macabre David Lubar returns from a journey into the darkest depths of his brain with thirty-five more warped and creepy tales. And in the tradition of the three previous Weenie collections-- In the Land of the Lawn Weenies , Invasion of the Road Weenies , and The Curse of the Campfire Weenies --he reveals the inspiration behind each story at the end of the book. Don't be a weenie. Read these stories...if you dare!
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Author Notes
David Lubar created a sensation with his debut novel, Hidden Talents , an ALA Best Book for Young Adults. Thousands of kids and educators across the country have voted Hidden Talents onto over twenty state lists. David is also the author of True Talents , the sequel to Hidden Talents ; Flip , an ALA Best Book for Young Adults and a VOYA Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror selection; five short story collections, including In the Land of the Lawn Weenies , Invasion of the Road Weenies , The Curse of the Campfire Weenies , and Attack of the Vampire Weenies ; and the Nathan Abercrombie, Accidental Zombie series. Lubar grew up in Morristown, New Jersey, and he has also lived in New Brunswick, Edison, and Piscataway, NJ, and Sacramento, CA. Besides writing, he has also worked as a video game programmer and designer. He now lives in Nazareth, Pennsylvania.
Reviews (3)
School Library Journal Review
Gr 6-9-In this entertaining collection of three dozen short stories, Lubar creates characters who will quickly engage readers. The selections range between two and six pages in length. Some are humorous, such as the title story, which involves middle schoolers in a hot-pepper-eating contest, while others are moralistic horror tales, such as "The Ratty Old Bumbershoot," in which a boy is eaten by an umbrella that he "borrows" but has no intention of returning. Still others are science fiction, as in "Galactic Zap," in which a video game created by aliens is placed on Earth and anyone who gets good at it is eliminated to help ensure a quick takeover of the planet. Most readers will find something here to their liking.-Valerie Davis, Campbell County Public Library, Newport, KY (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Horn Book Review
This collection features thirty-five creepy short stories. In "Into the Wild Blue Yonder," letters fall off a carnival ride's sign until only blender is left--and the ride morphs into one. In "Yesterday Tomorrow," after a clock crashes to the floor, time spins backward. In "Sting, Where Is Thy Death?" a squashed hornet reanimates. Lubar's stories are humorously macabre and effectively eerie. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.
Booklist Review
Lubar's creativity is still going strong in these 35 short stories that present suspenseful, surreal tales about an umbrella that ate a boy, a carnival ride that makes sausage out of its young riders, killer mannequins, a Just Like Me doll that consumes a mother's wicked affections, and birds that take vengeance on a boy and his BB gun. Some selections seem to have an underlying environmental message, as in the story of the vegan family devoured by turkeys on Thanksgiving and the non-green family whose huge SUV is attacked by dinosaurs. As in Lubar's other fiction collections, such as Invasion of the Road Weenies (2005), the back of the book features short paragraphs on the author's inspiration for each piece. Taken together, these scary stories and urban legends will delight reluctant and ravenous readers alike.--Medlar, Andrew Copyright 2009 Booklist
