Annie Pitts, Burger Kid - Softcover

Diane DeGroat

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1587171104 ISBN 13: 9781587171109

Publisher: Chronicle Books, 2001

Synopsis

Third-grader Annie Pitts loves hamburgers and is determined to become the Burger Barn's next poster child, hoping to impress her snooty cousin Mercedes and her pesky classmate Matthew. By the creator of Annie Pitts, Swamp Monster. Reprint.

About this title

About the Author

Diane deGroat is the illustrator of more than 100 books for children. She is also the author-illustrator of the popular series about Gilbert the opossum, including Jingle Bells, Homework Smells, and We Gather Together.... Now Please Get Lost! She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.

From School Library Journal

Grade 2-4-In this sequel to Annie Pitts, Artichoke (1992; o.p.) and Annie Pitts, Swamp Monster (1994; o.p., both S & S), the third grader auditions as a poster model for her favorite fast-food restaurant, and her "single parent plus grandma" family prepares for Thanksgiving with an ever-increasing guest list. Ten fast-moving chapters introduce a large cast of characters, including a boy Annie secretly likes and a female cousin with a shaved head. Readers will admire the redhead's spunk and find laughs in the book's yuck factor. The hamburger-loving protagonist eats oatmeal on a bun (with ketchup) for breakfast and "barfs" her Thanksgiving turkey. Unfortunately, deGroat's heavy-handed vocabulary lessons via Annie's "Learn-a-Word-a-Day calendar," with frequent repetition of those words, diminish the appealing levity. Add this title to collections in which the series already has a following.
Gay Lynn Van Vleck, Henrico County Library, Glen Allen, VA
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Edition details

• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1587171104
• ISBN 13: 9781587171109
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 112