Evil Queen Tut and the Great Ant Pyramids (The Zack Files, No. 16) [Paperback]

Dan Greenburg (Author), Jack E. Davis (Illustrator)

Book Description

Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up

While on a class picnic in Central Park, ten-year-old Zack gets a chance to study ants close up and personal when he uses way too much of a classmate's diet powder and shrinks to their size.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 7 and up
  
• Paperback: 64 pages
• Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap; First Edition edition (July 19, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0448418762
• ISBN-13: 978-0448418766
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.2 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #464,786 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Dan Greenburg has known success as a humorist, a novelist, a journalist, a screenwriter, and a playwright. Now he has turned his considerable talent to writing an original new series of books for a younger audience. Inspired by his own son Zack, for whom the hero of his new series, The Zack Files, is named, Greenburg has combined his love of humor, his interest in things paranormal, and his talent for writing to create books that kids like Zack will want to read. With 18 books to his credit, Dan Greenburg's work has been translated into 19 languages and is available in 22 countries. His best-selling titles for adults include How to Be a Jewish Mother, How to Make Yourself Miserable, Scoring, Love Kills, How to Avoid Love and Marriage and Exes. His previous books for children include Young Santa, The Bed Who Ran Away From Home, Jumbo the Boy and Arnold the Elephant. His articles have appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, Ms., Time, Newsweek, Life, New York magazine, Cosmopolitan, the New York Times Book Review, Vanity Fair, Playboy, and have been reprinted in 33 anthologies of humor and satire in the United States and England. Born and raised in Chicago, Dan Greenburg received a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Illinois, and his M.A. from UCLA. He is the father of Zack, a teenage son, who played the title role in the motion picture, LORENZO'S OIL, and served as the inspiration for The Zack Files. Mr. Greenburg lives in Westchester County, New York.

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Evil Queen Tut and the Great Ant Pyramids, March 19, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Evil Queen Tut and the Great Ant Pyramids (The Zack Files, No. 16) (Paperback)

I loved this book! It was exciting and enjoyable. My favorite part was when Zack shrunk to ant size. It was easy to read. I didn't want to stop.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Beware the Queen!, January 8, 2002

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This review is from: Evil Queen Tut and the Great Ant Pyramids (The Zack Files, No. 16) (Paperback)

"Evil Queen Tut and the Great Ant Pyramids," by Dan Greenburg, is #16 in the "Zack Files" series of novels for young adult readers. Greenburg's lighthearted sci-fi tale is well enhanced by Jack E. Davis' goofy illustrations.

The books in this series tell the adventures of Zack, an elementary school student who often finds himself involved in paranormal phenomena. In "Evil Queen Tut," Zack is accidentally shrunken down to insect size and encounters the villain of the title: she is the dictatorial monarch of a surprisingly advanced ant civilization. Zack is a likeable hero, and there are some clever jokes and plot points. Overall, this book is good silly fun.

4.0 out of 5 stars Amazing Adventure, September 3, 2006

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Moring (Japan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Evil Queen Tut and the Great Ant Pyramids (The Zack Files, No. 16) (Paperback)

Zack meets an Egyptian ant in Central Park on a school trip. The Egyptian ant doesn't mean an ant from Egypt but an ant who has a culture like old Egypt. And the ant Zack meets is a slave ant who escaped from a colony. Zack decide helping her. What adventures are waiting him?

I think this is a good adventure story. Author sets very special situations and makes the story interesting.
Many things happen in short time. And many ideas in the story that let you surprise.
Especially I felt familiar with the Egypt stuff in this story because I visited Egypt this May.

Enjoy the adventures with Zack!