Copyright Date:
2013
Edition Date:
2013
Release Date:
10/01/13
Pages:
117 pages
ISBN:
Publisher: 1-459-80496-1 Perma-Bound: 0-605-85958-2
ISBN 13:
Publisher: 978-1-459-80496-8 Perma-Bound: 978-0-605-85958-6
Dewey:
Fic
LCCN:
2013935384
Dimensions:
18 cm.
Language:
English
Reviews:
ALA Booklist
(Fri Nov 01 00:00:00 CDT 2013)
In this stand-alone follow-up to The Snowball Effect (2010), good-natured 15-year-old Dylan is in bad trouble again. This time it's a two-front foible: Dylan lied to get a busboy job at a swanky local inn, and he also lied about the identities of the bullies who threw his clothes (and the clothes of his pals) into a tree while they were skinny-dipping. The latter is particularly disastrous. While they were skulking about "borrowing" towels from a neighbor's yard, an actual robbery was occurring in the area. So now they're suspects. Being a svelte, fast-moving book in the Orca Currents line for reluctant readers, little time is wasted meshing the two plots in a convenient though fairly unexpected way, leading up to a revelation of a very clever crime and a criminal whose identity may catch readers off guard. Dylan's use of "Geez" and "Nuts" may feel youngish to the intended audience, but otherwise, this is a solid, interesting, never-too-threatening mystery.
Horn Book
(Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 CDT 2014)
Dylan's summer job is jeopardized by some well-intentioned but illegal activities (participating in a fiery end-of-school tradition; stealing towels when a prank leaves him naked), forcing him to investigate the other thefts he's being blamed for. Despite a nifty closing twist, the thin plot is paint-by-numbers and Dylan's cluelessness and entitlement may turn readers off.
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Horn Book
(Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 CDT 2014)
Dylan and his friends attract the attention of the police when a summer bonfire gets out of control. Dylan almost loses a job opportunity at a local inn because of his antics, but he is saved by the lies of Heather, an employee of the inn. When he is caught on camera stealing towels from a summer cottage after a skinny-dipping prank, Dylan and his friends become suspects in a number of cottage robberies. Dylan learns everything he can about the robberies, with the hope of clearing his name, and finds himself in more than one sticky situation in the process.