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Summary
Even a child who is pure of heart And does his homework neatly May become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms And the moon is full completely Werewolf Club member Billy Furball has been banned from the school lunchroom for having a food fight with himself. Worse yet, Dr. Cookie Mendoza, the Board of Education Psychiatrist, insists that none of the members of the club are really werewolves because werewolves don't exist. How will our heroes confront such crises? To support their pal Billy, the other members of the Club boycott the school lunchroom, too. All end up dining instead at Honest Tom's Tibetan-American Lunchroom where they get to know Captain Sterling, of the North American Space Squad, and Carla Lola Carolina, the restaurant's manager. When Carla undergoes a rather strange transformation the situation gets serious! Only a grisly encounter with alien meatballs...oh, it's too horrible to tell. You'll have to read The Lunchroom of Doom yourself to see what happens.
Author Notes
Author, illustrator, and radio commentator Daniel M. Pinkwater was born in Memphis Tennessee on November 15, 1941. He is trained as an artist and attended Bard College. In 1969, he wrote and illustrated his first book, The Terrible Roar. Since then he has written over 50 books for children, young adults, and adults. He is also a commentator on National Public Radio's All Things Considered and regularly reviews children's books on Weekend Edition Saturday. While he has illustrated many of his works, his most recent ones have been illustrated by his wife Jill Pinkwater.
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Reviews (3)
School Library Journal Review
Gr 2-5-In this second installment of Pinkwater's offbeat series, Billy Furball has been banned from the cafeteria for having a food fight with himself. He, his fellow members of the Watson Elementary School Werewolf Club, and their faculty advisor make their way to Honest Tom's Tibetan-American Lunchroom where they get to know some mighty bizarre customers, maybe even stranger than they are. After an encounter with the kooky and skeptical school psychiatrist, scary and horrible things begin to happen. The Pinkwaters have created another winning chapter book that will appeal to first and second graders' warped sense of humor, and will attract older reluctant readers. The black-and-white cartoons and werewolf play on words add more fun and humor to an already entertaining title. A howling good addition to chapter-book collections.-Betsy Barnett, Eads School District, CO (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Horn Book Review
Norman was raised to behave like a dog, so when he joins the Werewolf Club he finally feels accepted and becomes one of the pack--literally. [cf2]Pretzel[cf1] concerns a magic pretzel and a curse, and [cf2]Lunchroom[cf1] features alien meatballs. Pinkwater's writing is unclear and unfocused at times, but it's also wacky, fast paced, and action-packed. The simplistic illustrations don't add much to the narratives. From HORN BOOK Spring 2001, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Booklist Review
Gr. 3^-4. The Watson Elementary School's Werewolf Club weathers an identity crisis in its second adventure. Since Billy Furball's banning from the school lunchroom, he and his werewolf clubmates Lucy Fang, Ralf Alfa, and Norman Gnormal repair to Honest Tom's Tibetan-American Lunchroom for midday meals with assorted clientele, including sailors, midgets, Vikings, and an occasional space alien. Billy also has to see a psychiatrist, who insists so strongly that werewolves don't exist that Billy and his friends are convinced that the fur, fangs, and claws they sprout under the full moon are imaginary. Fortunately, even psychiatrists can be wrong, for, as it turns out, only the Werewolf Club stands between humanity and an invasion of evil, giant meatballs from another planet. Using "magic marker, pen, and imported European wolf spit," Jill Pinkwater adds plenty of pictures to this easy chapter book, giving the club members doggy looks and showing concern for more delicate sensibilities by substituting a peaceful scene with bunnies and flowers for the climactic feeding frenzy. Three cheers for the Werewolf Club; readers with a preference for serious themes and rational plots need not apply. --John Peters