Gimme shelter Misadventures and misinformation

Doreen Cronin

Book - 2017

The Chicken Squad uncovers mysterious remains while digging a meteor/storm shelter, and they stop work to investigate just as a big storm is approaching.

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Subjects
Genres
Humorous fiction
Detective and mystery fiction
Mystery fiction
Published
New York : Atheneum, Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division [2017]
Language
English
Main Author
Doreen Cronin (author)
Other Authors
Stephen Gilpin (illustrator)
Edition
First edition
Item Description
"A Caitlyn Dlouhy Book."
Physical Description
116 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
ISBN
9781534405714
9781534405721
Contents unavailable.
Review by Horn Book Review

The fifth misadventure of the Chicken Squad starts at the bottom of a hole. Sugar, who dug the hole, hopes Dirt, Poppy, and Sweetie can manage to rescue her from it. (Not exactly.) Sugar intends the hole as a storm shelter for a potential future weather crisis: Listen, whether it strikes today or tomorrow or next week doesnt matterWhat matters is that we are prepared for it! The storm shelter sparks no end of disagreement among the chickens, and the conversation veers wildly from meteorology to flatulence (Its Latin for who cut the cheese) to the United States Constitution and voting rights (A secret password to vote? Thats unconstitutional!). The wacky Chicken Squad drama bears some unmistakable resemblances to real political issues, as the chickens continue to debate over who will be welcome to use the shelter. Elsewhere in the yard, the squirrels and the chipmunks are now digging their own private holes just in case, though they are not sure of what. In the end, when a real emergency strikes, the chickens, the squirrels, and the chipmunks all bumble through it together, and if they learn little else, they do recognize that working together works best and that e pluribus unum (out of many, one) is not Latin for one big hole. Slapstick humor, a large font, and regular spot art keep this series entertaining and accessible for new chapter book readers. julie roach (c) Copyright 2017. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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Gimme Shelter Excerpted from Chicken Squad 5 (W. T. ) by Doreen Cronin All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.