Soup on Fire [Hardcover]

Robert Newton Peck (Author), Charles Robinson (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 1987 | Age Level: 9 and up

Rob and Soup set in motion a wild scheme to catch the eye of the Hollywood talent scout visiting their small Vermont town.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Grade 4-7 Another of Peck's funny stories of growing up in a small Vermont town during the Depression. Soup and Rob have discovered that a Hollywood talent scout is coming to town to hold auditions, and that he will be accompanied by their Saturday matinee idol Fearless Ferguson, a silver screen cowboy reknowned for his daring. Soup dreams up a stunt guaranteed to impress Fearless and drafts Rob to help pull it off. Rob is never told exactly what it involvessomething to do with an ancient but odiferous garbage wagon loaded with hay and pulled by Soup's aunt's Siberian bearhounds. Of course there are a few mishaps and minor details that Soup overlooksthe wagon cannot be steered by the driver, the dogs are not in a proper harness and therefore are able to go in opposite directions, the talent scout donates a mountain of bubble bath to the women of the town, and the water tower has one very rickety leg. Meanwhile, the Bishop Zion Zeal and the Golden Prophets of Eternal Glory come to town determined to save the people from sinsuch as attending movies. This will be appreciated by Soup and Rob's current fans as well as by anyone looking for a funny story. Nancy P. Reeder, Heathwood Hall Episcopal School, Columbia, S.C.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9 and up
  
• Hardcover: 116 pages
• Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers; First Edition edition (September 1, 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0385295804
• ISBN-13: 978-0385295802
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,919,626 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Soup On Fire, April 23, 2004

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Soup on Fire (Hardcover)

I had read some of the Soup books before and I was thinking that this one would be good also. I think that this book is fun and seems to be real in some things in life. Even if parts of the book is bad, it gets beter.

The best part of the book is went they get in the wagon and the horse run away. They crash itto the water tower and it falls over.

I think that Soup was the best character in the story. He was the funniest person in the story and get in more truoble. The conflict is when the wagon was on fire.