Case File 13 #2: Making the Team - Hardcover

Savage, J. Scott

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0062133314 ISBN 13: 9780062133311

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2013

Synopsis

With thrills, chills, and laughs on every page, plus a boy-girl rivalry that will leave you in stitches, this is one frighteningly funny book you don't want to miss. In this second book in a middle grade series that's "sure to please young readers looking for a thrill" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), three monster-obsessed friends must take on a mad scientist who is literally stitching together a Frankenstein-esque football team.

Nick, Carter, and Angelo are back to monster business as usual. They're even filming a monster movie for a school project on Building a Brighter Tomorrow. (There's a connection there somewhere, they swear.) But when a new private school arrives in town boasting a football team that's inhumanly good, the boys start to suspect they may have a real monster mystery on their hands. And what's worse, they may need help from their girl rivals, Angie, Tiffany, and Dana, to get to the bottom of it.

About this title

About the Author

J. Scott Savage has returned after being lost in a Mexican rainforest. His office is now filled with Mayan scrolls, hieroglyphics, artifacts, and star charts. His children and children-in-law, Big Nick, Erica, Scott, Natalie, Jake, and Little Nick, look pale and claim to be cursed. His grandchildren, Gray, Lizzie, and Jack, are heavily wrapped in mummy-like bandages. And his wife, Jennifer, has reportedly been seen glowing green and hexing the neighbors.

From the Back Cover

You hold in your hands a most frightening file.

Through extensive research and firsthand accounts, I have compiled everything you need to know about case file 13. In this book, you will find the next grisly adventure of three boys whose monster knowledge led them down a path so dark, so dangerous—

Excuse me, aren't you forgetting about the three girls who knew way more about monsters?

Get real, Angie. It's not his fault you girls are so forgettable.

No fighting! You all showed bravery in the face of ghosts, grave robbers, and even mad scientists in this volume alone, and that proves you're all extraordinary.

It's just that the boys are more extraordinary.

Nick!

Are we quite finished? Now, let's see, where was I . . .

You hold in your hands a most frightening file, chronicling the adventures of three awesome boys whose superio monster knowledge made them way cooler than the girls. This is the second volume. Read on if you dare. . . .

Reviews

This second volume in the Case File 13 series conjures up the same appealing mash-up of comedy and horror as Zombie Kid (2013). Savage begins this story just a few weeks later and provides the sixth-grade boys with a fresh Frankensteinian conspiracy to unravel. Helping them, while also annoying them, are three girls in their grade who are equally adventurous and imperturbable. Although insults fly back and forth, the two squads team up to figure out why corpses are being stolen from the cemetery and hospital. Savage skillfully mixes the perilous activity the kids get into with Nick’s active conscience and plenty of gross-out moments. There is an array of horrible stenches here, ranging from Tiffany’s overpowering perfume and Carter’s infamous flatulence to the goopy green liquid they all have to crawl through to save a friend, but each character also reveals a strength and bravery that makes this crew, at the end, smell quite sweet. Grades 4-7. --Abby Nolan

Edition details

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0062133314
• ISBN 13: 9780062133311
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Holgate Doug
• Number of pages: 272