How I Went from Bad to Verse (Zack Files, No 20) [Turtleback]

Dan Greenburg (Author)

Product Details

• Turtleback
• Publisher: Demco Media (April 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0606188517
• ISBN-13: 978-0606188517
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

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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5.0 out of 5 stars The Best One of all the Zack Files books by Dan Greenburg, September 7, 2010

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This review is from: Zack Files 20: How I Went from Bad to Verse (Paperback)

I'm just so-so on the Zack Files series -- they are funny in an underpants-humor sort of way, but they tend to be silly instead of really interesting. The kids enjoy the books, but they aren't really memorable. Third grade is about right for these books.

"How I Went from Bad to Verse" is the best one in the series -- it is genuinely funny, with great rhymes (about Zack's bottom) and even some limericks. Zack gets bitten by a tick and gets "Rhyme disease." This is a happy one to read together -- get the giggles.

Divorced parents, dad is the "cool" one, some disrespect toward authority figures. 20 synonyms for "butt".