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Zack Files 27: My Teacher Ate My Homework

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The Zack Files are not normally something you'd find on my bookshelf, but as I was recently forced to put down TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD and pick up a couple TZFs to read to my brother (an agonizing experience. You try reading to a squirming seven year old intent on returning to his Power Rangers Battling Figures or, preferably, whacking his dear older sister with his collapsible plastic light saber), I figured I might as well make my voice heard.

I guess I'm a little too bored for the overall goodness of the world. I just finished TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (amazing book, by the way) and I have nothing to do.

MY TEACHER ATE MY HOMEWORK is an excellent example of literature for children incapable of reading on such subjects as racism, hatred, and revenge. The Zack Files books are a series that are bereft of those complex issues, and much more. In fact, they are bereft of pretty much everything desirable in a book, excepting, of course, the difficulties of one's body being possessed by the spirit of a long-dead Queen of England. Despite the air-filled nature of these, uh, novels, author Dan Greenburg manages to slip the phrases "my butt grew alarmingly," "he sweats a lot," and "I covered myself in a ripped-up cereal box, because my clothes were all gone" into every single one of his novels, even the ones without any of the above in their titles.

Oh well. If you're looking for something entertaining, especially if you're one of those second or third grade boys that go into spasms of hilarity upon hearing the word "butt", The Zack Files are a good bet. I'd say if you're over seven years, and you've achieved a more-or-less-corresponding degree of maturity, try something else.

Thanks for reading. Arantxa