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Welcome to Smellville / by R. L. Stine.

Stine, R. L., (author.). Zapata, Jeff, (illustrator.). Simko, Joe, (illustrator.).

Summary:

Meet the Garbage Pail Kids-Adam Bomb, Babbling Brooke, Brainy Janey, Cranky Frankie, Handy Sandy, Junkfood John, Luke Puke, Nervous Rex, Rob Slob, and Wacky Jackie. You may think they're gross and weird and slobby and strange, but they're not bad kids-they just don't know any better. Even though they all live together in one big tumbledown house and have as much fun as they can while trying to survive Smellville Middle School, they are pretty "normal" kids. Except when compared to Peter and Patty Perfect, who are just, well...perfect. (Perfectly annoying, that is.) When the Perfects' mom and dad, Penny and Parker Perfect, show up to prove the Garbage Pail Kids are living without any parents, the kids need to act fast. Will they be able to find their own pair of perfect parents in time?

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781419743610
  • ISBN: 1419743619
  • Physical Description: 197 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
  • Publisher: New York, NY ; Harry N Abrams Inc : 2020.

Content descriptions

Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR MG 3.5 4 510950.
Subject: Middle school students > Juvenile fiction.
Siblings > Juvenile fiction.
Middle schools > Juvenile fiction.
Parents > Juvenile fiction.
Genre: Humorous fiction.

Available copies

  • 17 of 18 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at North Kansas City.

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  • 0 current holds with 18 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
North Kansas City Public Library J STINE (Text) 0001002425427 JUV Fiction Available -

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Welcome to Smellville (Garbage Pail Kids Book 1)
Welcome to Smellville (Garbage Pail Kids Book 1)
by Stine, R. L.; Zapata, Jeff (Illustrator); Simko, Joe (Illustrator)
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Welcome to Smellville (Garbage Pail Kids Book 1)

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Ten children chosen from a teeming crew of trading-card characters with personal-hygiene issues shamble into print. Parodying the Cabbage Patch Kids and subject since the 1980s to various expansions and reboots, the chubby-cheeked characters--all paper white in the monochrome cast list and frequent illustrations--bear suggestive names like Luke Puke, Rob Slob, and Babbling Brooke; exhibit gross and slovenly behavior; and live together in appalling filth. With all this built-in child appeal, who better to present their misadventures in prose than Stine, the creator of the redolent Rotten School series (and one or two others)? Here, Adam Bomb (his head explodes) and five other housemates trade off narrative duties in a set of short-attention-span episodes. These feature an all-booger science project, middle school hijinks (" 'Hey, check it out!' Wacky Jackie called, and held up her clay creation. 'What is that?' Mrs. Hooping-Koff asked. Jackie grinned. 'It's a body part! Guess what it is?' "), an abusive Rent-a-Mom hired to fend off the snoopy neighboring Perfects, and, for occasional diversions, repeated failures of favorite TV superhero Jonny Pantsfalldown to nab butt-crack--flashing supervillain Big Bootus. By the end, the Perfects and the Rent-a-Mom are both sent packing. "But we're not bad kids," Adam Bomb explains. "We just don't know any better." Maybe young readers will. Lots of laffs…or at least wet and dry heaves. (stickers) (Media tie-in/fiction. 7-10) Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.


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