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Lunchbox and the Aliens

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This charming book tells how a loveable bassett hound named Lunchbox saves the world from alien interference and helps out his boy's family at the same time. The book alternates between earth and a spaceship with two amusing aliens who remind me of a few people I've known. The author's humor is just right for the age group and his writing has a wry touch that adults will be amused by as well. The author has a great ear for conversation and he also knows what matters to boys and girls. I highly recommend it.

This is a great book! Note to parents: If your kid likes books and spends too much time in front of the TV, get them this book! True, it has weird, made up words, like rurfroo and plookie, but that's why it's a challenging, but interesting book. It's funny and the author had a great sense of what he wanted when he wrote it: a book kids and adults alike will love. Oh, and here is how to pronounce Schwozzwort: Skwoz-wort. Yeah, I know, it's a tough word to spell and pronounce right without the author saying it straight to you, which is why that is there. But anyway, GET THIS BOOK! KIDS AND ADULTS LOVE IT!

This book balances the fine line between good for kids and good for adults. The author makes the story serious and funny at the same time, with an example of the fact the aliens are running out of food and they have to depend on a fat basset hound who isn't exactly the sharpest tack in the bunch, until he gets turned into a genius that could make Bill Gates look like a dummy except for the fact that he can't talk... The story moves along fluently with Nate, the owner having to help Lunchbox, the dog, build a machine, make the aliens happy, and get his parents to understand what is going on.

Lunchbox is a basset hound who's been stolen by aliens, who change him into a garbage-machine-making machine. His new task is to change Earth's trash into a food adored by aliens and dogs: will Lunchbox and his boy solve the world's garbage crisis in the process of forming interplanetary friendships? A zany tale evolves.

This is a funny story that takes place in outer space and on earth. It is also about the fight for a Froonga machine, it makes garbage bars that Gronfloz and Frazz eat.
Lunchbox is an ordinary Basset hound: lazy, chubby, floppy ears, and not smart. Then one day while he was laying in the yard he was abducted by Gronfloz and Frazz.
While he is up in outer space, down on earth, his owner Nate is searching every where for him. When Lunchbox is up there he gets into one of Gronflozes more smart machine, so once he gets out he is smarter then a normal dog.
Gronfloz and Frazz put Lunchbox back down on earth with a mission to make more Froonga for them. He runs home and goes on Nate's Fathers computer designs the machine and makes a power point about what happened to him up in the space ship.
The parts that I most liked about the book was, Nate pretending Lunchbox was a wonder dog that had super speed and could fly.
Also I liked it when Gronfloz told Frazz about the Malfunbum Gwealfee ceremony. The ceremony, in the aliens planet is who ever is called Malfunbum Gwealfee has to put on the robe of shame and gets in a shopping cart and ride through the streets while every one is chanting Malfunbum Gwealfee. After that the aliens gets out, dances and sings:
"I'm Malfunbum Gwealfee, wont you please feed me
I used to have a name, I am full of shame
Tell your children not to look at my face that's full of shame
Rurfroo, Rurfroo, give me some crumbs!"
My opinion about the book was good. I would recommend this book to 4th to 8th graders. People who like fiction, and to people who like animals.

This book is about a basset hound named Lunchbox that gets abducted by two aliens. Lunchbox gets a lot of knowledge from a machine that the aliens made. Will the world end if Lunchbox does not learn to catch a frisbee?

I thought the book was good and funny because his owner was very loving. I would suggest this book to people who love dogs and a good adventure. -- Kayla

I love this book! The characters are complex and charming, it's funny for kids and adults and best of all, Fields does not "talk down" to kids. He toes that difficult line between making a book accessible and interesting to children and interesting at the same time. I recommend it!