Fantastic Friday: Jacob Wonderbar
Jacob Wonderbar and the Cosmic Space Kapow by Nathan Bransford Dial Books for Young Readers, 2011 Grades 3-6 Reviewed from purchased copy. I read this book during the 48-Hour Book Challenge as sort of a comic relief after the tearjerker I had just finished. I figured it looked kind of fun and wacky, and it was. What did surprise me a little bit was the level of writing and how the characters had more depth than I was expecting for a book that I thought would emphasize plot. Here's the blurb from the inside cover: Jacob Wonderbar has had a weird day. First there was that incident with the substitute teacher and the sprinklers. (Okay, maybe that wasn't so unusual for Jacob.) Then he and his best friends, Sarah and Dexter, discovered a silver man and a spaceship in the woods near their houses. Weirdest of all? The man offered to trade his ship for a corn dog! It sounded like a pretty good deal to Jacob, until he and his friends took their new ship for ...