Zack Files 17: Yikes! Grandma's a Teenager [Paperback]

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

Book Description

Publication Date: November 8, 1999 | Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up | Series: Zack Files (Book 17)

A trip to New York City to celebrate her 89th birthday--and participate in a Rockettes reunion at Radio City Music Hall--leaves Zack's Grandma Leah feeling younger than springtime. And she's looking that way too, since a strange trip through an airport metal detector turned back the hands of time and is making Grandma grow younger and younger!

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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.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 7 and up
  
• Paperback: 64 pages
• Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap; First Edition edition (November 8, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0448419998
• ISBN-13: 978-0448419992
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.1 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #242,345 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.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rock and Roll Grandma, July 12, 2005

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Zack Files 17: Yikes! Grandma's a Teenager (Paperback)

Have you ever been so entertained by a book? Well here is the one. Once you read this book you cannot even close it! It is about how a grandma turns into a teenager. Zack tries to find out a way to change her back. Find what he does by reading this fantastic story.

5.0 out of 5 stars A Funny, Funny Book, May 24, 2007

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Zack Files 17: Yikes! Grandma's a Teenager (Paperback)

Yikes! Grandma's a Teenager is a really funny book. It is about Zack's grandma who keeps on getting younger and younger. There are two parts that I think are the funniest. One of them is when Zack's grandma becomes a little kid. She gets in a fight with someone and has to go to the principal's office. The other one is when she is about two or three years old, and she says it is her birthday. Zack's dad asks her what she wants for her birthday and Grandma Leah says in a baby voice that she wants a pony. Zack says that they can't fit a pony in the house. Grandma Leah says a small pony is fine. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes to laugh a lot.

4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty Good for an 8-year-old like me, March 19, 2004

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Zack Solotaroff (Newtown, PA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Zack Files 17: Yikes! Grandma's a Teenager (Paperback)

I thought the book was good because the author added stuff that younger kids and teenagers do at their age. I would've given it five stars except that there was maybe a little too much detail for Grandma Leah.
Thank you and now it's my bedtime