A Whole Nother Story

Reader: Payton G
Age: 14
Title: A Whole Nother Story
Author: Dr. Cuthbert Soup
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pub Date: 01/??/2010
Galley: Yes
Nominate for Teens’ Top 10: Yes
Annotation: What do you get when you combine three secret agencies with bad motives, a poetry-writing cowboy, a traveling circus sideshow, three smart, pleasant, witty, attractive, polite, and relatively odor-free children, a sock puppet with attitude, a scientist, and a super secret machine? Well, it's not a recipe for bubble gum pizza. It's a whole nother story.
Recommend: Yes
How would you convince someone to read the book: I would tell them that it is a light read, but packed full of plenty of fun, circus folks, bad guys, pages, and a sock puppet with attitude.
Compelling Aspect of the Book: The most compelling part for me, was how everything really comes together in the end. For a lot of the book, I was wondering, where is this going? But then towards the end, the plot ties itself up nicely, but still leaves room for a sequel. That's not easy to do.
Did the cover tempt you and/or reflect the contents: I think that the cover could be improved, as it only showed two of the three groups who were after the Cheesemans. However, it very accurately reflected the content, and is interesting, enticing, and fun to look at.
Did you finish: Yes
Age Range: Under 12-15
Quality: 5Q Hard to imagine a better book
Popularity: 5P Everyone wants to read it