The Clue of the linoleum lederhosen / by M.T. Anderson.

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Title:

The Clue of the linoleum lederhosen / by M.T. Anderson.

Author:

Anderson, M. T.

ISBN:

9780152053529

9781442406971

Publication Information:

Orlando, FL : Beach Lane Books, 2006.

Physical Description:

243 p.

Series:

Pals in peril ; 2

General Note:

"M.T. Anderson's Thrilling tales."

Abstract:

Looking forward to a vacation, Katie, Lily, and Jasper attach their flying Gyroscopic Sky Suite to the Moose Tongue Lodge and Resort, where they mingle with other child heroes found in books, and where they become embroiled in a mystery involving lederhosen-clothed quintuplets and a screaming ventriloquist.

Subject Term:

Hotels, motels, etc. -- Juvenile fiction.

Resorts -- Juvenile fiction.

Heroes -- Juvenile fiction.

Humorous stories -- Juvenile fiction.

Mystery and detective stories -- Juvenile fiction.

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Summary

In need of a vacation after their last laser-beam-filled adventure, Lily, Jasper, and Katie have flown off for a restful stay at a distant mountain lodge, which just so happens to be hosting a gathering for characters from other middle-grade series novels. Two--the marvelous Manley Boys--look suspiciously like a pair of crime-solving brothers named Frank and Joe Hardy. Two others are a pair of boy-crazy twin sisters who attend a high school in some sweet valley somewhere. And then there arethe Hooper Quints, who, along with a wealthy heiress's priceless diamond necklace, have suddenly gone missing.

Does it surprise you that the supposedly "on vacation" Katie, Jasper, and Lily are the only ones around who have the chops to solve this challenging mystery?

National Book Award finalist M. T. Anderson has done it again with this second volume of his riotous and wonderfully weird new series.

Reviews (5)

Publisher's Weekly Review

The Clue of the Linoleum Lederhosen by M.T. Anderson, illus. by Kurt Cyrus, continues the Thrilling Tales series begun with Whales on Stilts! (in our Best Books citation, PW wrote, "Anderson sends up decades of children's book series, and creates a hysterical one of his own"). Lily, Jasper and Kate head to the Moose Tongue Lodge and Resort for some R&R, only to discover a number of other children's book heroes at the same rest spot-and some treasures go missing, cutting their vacation short. (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Horn Book Review

(Intermediate, Middle School) Anderson's second send-up of kids' series books is, if possible, even more self-consciously metaliterary than his first, Whales on Stilts (rev. 3/05). Katie Mulligan, star of the Horror Hollow series, is sick of adventures. Her good friends Jasper Dash, Boy Technonaut, and Lily Gefelty, ordinary girl, cheerfully join her for a getaway to the Moose Tongue Lodge and Resort where, coincidentally, any number of other child book heroes are in residence. The kidnapping of the Hooper Quints (whose books are read, justifiably, even less than Jasper's) and the theft of the priceless Mandrake Necklace lead Jasper to near asphyxiation by mountain laurel, Katie to even more determined withdrawal from mystery-solving, and Lily to frantic attempts to make everything right. Secondary characters such as the Cutesy Dell Twins, the Manley Boys, and Eddie Wax, whose dumb devotion to his dead horse Stumpy is both trite and curiously ennobling, add to the fizz but also inject a note of melancholy into the proceedings. The completely inane mystery becomes little more than a plot device that serves a more serious inquiry into literary immortality: if no one reads the old books, can their heroes still exist? Funny, yes, but also existentially thought-provoking. Sic transit gloria Goosebumps? (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.

Booklist Review

Gr. 4-7. Great Scott! The author of Whales on Stilts 0 (2005) has dashed off a swell sequel, featuring an expanded cast of ersatz Stratemeyer syndicate stars--from the Cutesy Dell Twins and the stupid, hunky Manley Boys to the "adorable mystery-solving Hooper Quints." In this episode, Jasper Dash, Boy Technonaut; Katie Mulligan ("known for combating evil wherever it shambles and drools"); and shy but canny Lily Gefilte leave aptly named Horror Hollow for a bit of R&R at remote Moose Tongue Lodge--only to be swept up, thanks to a supposed kidnapping and a putative robbery, into any number of encounters with wolves, steep cliffs, and oddball adults, as well as hilariously inane conversations with fellow vacationers. Tucking in friendship issues, hyperconvenient clues and red herrings (both figurative and literal), and the occasional book ad, footnote, or personal comment, Anderson leaves no trope untripped in bringing the newest of his Thrilling Tales series to its postdenouement ski party and happy ending. Never has the Hardy Boys-Nancy Drew axis been knocked further or more delightfully askew. --John Peters Copyright 2006 Booklist

School Library Journal Review

Gr 5-8-The intrepid detectives from Whales on Stilts! (Harcourt, 2005) return in another off-the-wall send-up of the Stratemeyer-style series fiction. Jasper, Katie, and Lily are off to the Moose Tongue Lodge and Resort for a short vacation. They discover that the inn is currently hosting a collection of other series characters, including the air-headed Cutesy Dell Twins (shades of Sweet Valley High); the blockheaded Manley Boys; and sad, one-book Eddie Wax, in perpetual mourning for his horse Stumpy. The mystery-solving Hooper Quints go missing, as do most of the lodge's hunting trophies and an heirloom diamond necklace belonging to one of the guests. Search parties are organized, and Jasper and Lily are keen to join in. Katie, however, prefers to hang out by the pool with the Twins. Unexpected dangers await the searchers, from gun-toting kidnappers to poisonous snakes to hungry wolves. Meanwhile, back at the Lodge-.The episodic and determinedly nonlinear plot is amusing, but the real fun here is the dialogue-a wild and wonderful m?lange of 1950s series-speak ("Jupiter's moons!"), Valley speak, adolescent trash talk, and mock heroics. As in Lemony Snicket's "Unfortunate Events" series (HarperCollins), the author frequently addresses readers directly with suggestions, hints, and comments. Underneath all the craziness, there is a subtle and surprisingly poignant message about growth, change, and friendship.-Elaine E. Knight, Lincoln Elementary Schools, IL (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Kirkus Review

Lost in the labyrinth of metafiction, this sequel to Whales on Stilts (2005) continues its send-up of everything from chick-lit to the Hardy Boys, from books that address the reader to books once popular, but now shelf-sitters. Jasper Dash, Boy Technonaut, whose books no one reads much anymore, Katie Mulligan of the Horror Hollow series, and their quiet sidekick Lily take off for a summer vacation. Katie wants a break, to sit by the pool, read Snazzy magazine and not solve mysteries. But wait! A priceless necklace vanishes. A man in a dark cloak moves about by echolocation. The Manley Boys, the Hooper Quints and the Cutesy Dell Twins are also in residence--but the Quints vanish! A near-impossible tangle of plots (nefarious), twists (hilarious) and asides (ridiculous) lead to, among other things, an entire subplot based on the throwaway line of "Ghost Riders in the Sky" and a snot-based death threat. Fiendishly clever withal--bending time a bit, warping references beyond all reason--it could be called profound if it weren't so knee-slappingly funny. Gee willikers, guys, when's the next one? (Fiction. 9-14) Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

Excerpts

Summertime TantrumGreat scott! cried Jasper Dash, Boy Technonaut. Your mother just lost her hand in the rotating band saw!Katie Mulligan kept dribbling her ball of wastepaper back and forth between her knees. Uh-huh, she said. Sure.Katies mother screamed and held up her bloody stump.Katie kicked the ball of paper into the trash basket, scoring two points. She asked, Right at the wrist?Jasper rushed to Katies mothers side. Dont you worry, Mrs. Mulligan! exclaimed Jasper. He grabbed her arm. Lie down flat while I prepare a tourniquet.They were in the Mulligans garage, watching Mrs. Mulligan make a roulette wheel for the Salvation Armys charity casino or at least thats what theyd been watching until Mrs. Mulligans gruesome accident.Where do you want to go to dinner? Katie asked her friend Lily.Lily shrugged. When she was alone with her friends, she was very quiet, hiding behind her bangs, watching rather than speaking. She was naturally pretty shy. She was also made bashful by the sight of industrial accidents, even though she knew that Katies mother was just playing a prank on Jasper, the way Mrs. Mulligan always did. Run over by a moose, decapitated by the dryer, burnt to a crisp by a defective AM/FM clock radio there was no tragedy too weird and stupid for Jasper to believe.Dont you worry, Mrs. Mulligan, he was saying. By next Thursday Ill have you fitted up with a bionic hand that will be every bit as good as your old hand. And it will have extendable fingers and photon thrusters, and therell be a space in the thumb to conceal your cyanide pill and lock-picking tools.Mrs. Mulligan stopped screaming. She looked at him skeptically. My lock-picking tools?Or whatever, said Jasper. Whatevers small and can be concealed in a secret chamber.Mrs. Mulligan took off the fake rubber arm stump and stretched her fingers. Why would you possibly think I would want lock-picking tools?Ah, said Jasper, somewhat displeased. I see you are not actually wounded at all.Who has lock-picking tools?Mrs. Mulligan, was your accident with the band saw just a jolly prank to put one over on me? Because if it was, may I maam may I say that I did not entirely appreciate the humor.Jasper, do you have lock-picking tools? What do you kids do all day?Good question, sighed Katie. Its vacation, and were bored out of our minds.Mrs. Mulligan waved her rubber wrist in the air. Well, thats why I was trying to cheer you all up a little.By sawing off your own hand? said Jasper.You girls didnt even jump, said Katies mom.Because we see it all the time, said Katie. She groaned, Aaaaaaalllllllll the tiiiiiiiiiiime. She let her tongue hang out of her mouth and her head roll back.Katie Mulligan lived in Horror Hollow, a small, eventful suburb where there were constantly problems with phantasms, murderers, door-to-door tarantula peddlers, and slime. She even had her own series of books written about her. They told every gory detail of how she fought of Excerpted from The Clue of the Linoleum Lederhosen: M. T. Anderson's Thrilling Tales by M. T. Anderson 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.