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Weird Stories from the Lonesome Café by Judy Cox (2000, Hardcover)
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Ten-year-old Sam is spending the summer in the middle of Nevada, working at the remote Lonesome Café. And the Help Wanted sign in the window brings some very strange visitors--Bigfoot, Elvis, a jolly fat man from the North Pole, and a young girl and her dog who blow in on a tornado from Kansas. And then theres the spaceship that crashes nearby and its little green passenger. . . . Sam is kept busy distracting the nosy TV news team so they dont discover the identities of the odd visitors, but its not easy. Come along for a visit to the Lonesome Café--its the place to be.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-100152021345
ISBN-139780152021344
eBay Product ID (ePID)1142804
Product Key Features
Book TitleWeird Stories from the Lonesome Café
Number of Pages80 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2000
TopicHumorous Stories, Cooking & Food, Fantasy & Magic, General, People & Places / United States / General
IllustratorYes, Kidd, Diane
GenreJuvenile Fiction
AuthorJudy Cox
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight10.2 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceJuvenile Audience
LCCN98-056016
ReviewsGrade 2-4-Sam moves with his uncle to the middle of the desert for peace and quiet. Uncle Clem is supposed to be a writer, but his severe lack of imagination keeps him from seeing that the Lonesome Cafe he opens employs Bigfoot, Elvis, Santa Claus, Dorothy and Toto, and E. T. It's Sam who recognizes their incredible paranormal good fortune, and Sam who tells the story. It's Clem who inadvertently saves each of the newcomers from being discovered by the persistent Channel 54 News team. While Cox stretches the story idea fairly thin, she succeeds in writing an early chapter book with appeal to more sophisticated older reluctant readers. They'll appreciate the repetition as well as the joke on Uncle Clem. Kidd's plentiful, black-and-white illustrations provide comic relief without looking too childish for the older audience.Pat Leach, Lincoln City Libraries, NE, As she did in Rabbit Pirates, Cox chooses an amiable eating establishment setting as the setting for this cheerful spoof. Sam's Uncle Clem, an aspiring author, wishes something would happen at his remote Nevada cafe so that he would have something to write about. Yet narrator Sam spots some mighty strange occurrences right under their noses. Just after an enormous, furry stranger whom the duo names Harry arrives for some chow, a TV news crew appears in search of Bigfoot, who has been spotted in the area. Next, a fellow with dark hair "slicked-back and waved up high" pulls up in a 1950s pink Caddy and introduces himself as "El." Mr. C, a jolly, round gent with a big white beard on vacation from his workshop up North shows up next, followed by a pigtailed girl who blows in on a small tornado and announces to her dog, "I don't think we're in Kansas anymore." Sam's oblivious uncle hires them all, still insisting that "nothing ever happens here" each time the reporters return in search of a story. Cox sprinkles her quick-moving if predictable narrative with double entendres and references that range from obvious to waggish ("Must be all shook up," says El after an alien emerges from his crashed spaceship). The Lonesome Cafe doesn't set out to serve up substantial fare, but the light snack it offers will satiate kids with an appetite for shenanigans, and Kidd's black-and-white cartoon art dishes out an extra dollop of fun. Ages 7-10. (Apr.)
Grade FromFirst Grade
Grade ToFourth Grade
SynopsisTen-year-old Sam is spending the summer in the middle of Nevada, working at the remote Lonesome Café. And the Help Wanted sign in the window brings some very strange visitors--Bigfoot, Elvis, a jolly fat man from the North Pole, and a young girl and her dog who blow in on a tornado from Kansas. And then there's the spaceship that crashes nearby and its little green passenger. . . . Sam is kept busy distracting the nosy TV news team so they don't discover the identities of the odd visitors, but it's not easy. Come along for a visit to the Lonesome Café--it's the place to be., Ten-year-old Sam is spending the summer in the middle of Nevada, working at the remote Lonesome Caf . And the Help Wanted sign in the window brings some very strange visitors--Bigfoot, Elvis, a jolly fat man from the North Pole, and a young girl and her dog who blow in on a tornado from Kansas. And then there's the spaceship that crashes nearby and its little green passenger. . . . Sam is kept busy distracting the nosy TV news team so they don't discover the identities of the odd visitors, but it's not easy. Come along for a visit to the Lonesome Caf --it's the place to be.
LC Classification NumberPZ7.C83835We 2000
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