The Phantom of the Lunch Wagon

Pinkwater, Daniel Manus

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9780027746419: The Phantom of the Lunch Wagon

ISBN 10: 0027746410 ISBN 13: 9780027746419

Publisher: Atheneum, 1992

Chris Kevin-Keith fixes up and reopens an abandoned lunch wagon, unaware that it originally closed because it was haunted by a scary phantom.

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Kindergarten-Grade 3-- The old lunch wagon on West Cheddar Street closed long ago because people thought a phantom was haunting it. Years later, young Chris Kevin-Keith, who has always loved lunch wagons and has not heard of the phantom, buys the place, fixes it up, and renames it ``The Jolly Trolley.'' Business is great until people start hearing frightening noises. Despite Pinkwater's typically deadpan delivery and his intentionally silly, cartoonish drawings, this story is not as much fun as some of his other titles, such as Wempires and Doodle Flute (both Macmillan, 1991). Both Chris Kevin-Keith and old Mr. Wiggers, who helps unhaunt the diner, lack eccentric traits or expressions to make them distinctive and humorous. The conclusion is similarly unmemorable. Pinkwater's unique comic sense is not totally absent, but fans may be disappointed at the restrained tone and relatively conventional plot. --Steven Engelfried, Alameda County Library, CA
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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