Zack Files 28: Tell a Lie and Your Butt Will Grow (Zack Files)

Features

• Reading level: Ages 9-12
  
• Cover Type: Paperback with 64 pages
• Published by: Grosset & Dunlap December 30, 2002
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 044842682X
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0448426822
• Book Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.2 x 0.2 inches
• Weighs: 1.9 ounces

From School Library Journal
Grade 2-4-Zack's science-fair partner is the school's worst liar. No matter what yarn anyone tells, Andrew has to top it-in spades. Suddenly, in the midst of one of his whoppers, Zack notices that his friend's pants seem to be getting tighter- and tighter- and r-r-rip! Like Pinocchio, Andrew is showing physical reactions to fibbing. However, instead of his nose, it's his hind end that is growing. Before long, the boys' project-a bicycle-powered electrical generator-is in jeopardy. Andrew's seat can't fit on it! Zack must get his friend back to normal-and convince him to stick to the facts in the future. Amusing cartoon drawings illustrate Andrew's posterior problem without slipping over into gross details. Adults may find the preoccupation with backsides just a tad distasteful, but fans of the series expect a degree of lighthearted irreverence. The off-the-wall humor and underlying emphasis on honesty will appeal to transitional and reluctant readers.
Elaine E. Knight, Lincoln Elementary Schools, IL
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Description
Zack's classmate Andrew Clancy is always bragging. Everyone knows he's a big liar. But suddenly, Andrew is having trouble hiding the fact that he isn't telling the truth, and every time he tells another whopper, his butt grows bigger-will it ever stop?

Reader Reviews
LIke all the "Zack Files," this one is just tons of fun. I gave it to a fourth grader who resisted reading, and now I can't get him to give me my book back! Dan Greenburg has a wonderful ear for the way children think and talk. Well, how boys do, at any rate. I haven't found that girls get as big a kick out of it. But he creates preposterous situations and then resolves them, always with the sympathetic help (or, at least, noninterference) of the divorced Dad (what a surprise.).