George and Harold link up in kindergarten to reduce a quartet of vicious bullies to giggling insanity with a relentless series of pranks involving shaving cream, spiders, effeminate spoof text messages and friendship bracelets. Cut to five years previous, in a prequel to the whole series.
The villain sets off after George and Harold, who are in juvie (“not much different from our old school…except that they have library books here.”).
There, he witnesses fellow inmate Tippy Tinkletrousers (aka Professor Poopypants) escape in a giant Robo-Suit (later reduced to time-traveling trousers). To start, in an alternate ending to the previous episode, Principal Krupp ends up in prison (“…a lot like being a student at Jerome Horwitz Elementary School, except that the prison had better funding”). Not that there aren’t pranks and envelope-pushing quips aplenty. Sure signs that the creative wells are running dry at last, the Captain’s ninth, overstuffed outing both recycles a villain (see Book 4) and offers trendy anti-bullying wish fulfillment. Readers looking for a mystery with heart, humor, and hairy moments will be captivated Readers should not be misled by the book’s innocuous cover-the book deals with such dark subjects as death and child abduction, and the concept of hell is described in vivid, frightening detail. Heavy themes are handled with sensitivity, offering a cathartic experience for readers who may be dealing with similar situations. Shifting between past and present as Quinn reflects on her difficult relationship with her younger sister, Emma, and her immediate dilemma with Kara and the Inn Between, Cohen’s emotionally gripping tale perfectly captures the essences of friendship and sibling love. Knowing they aren’t safe, the girls resolve to escape, even if it means traveling through the hot desert with little food and water, but before Quinn can leave the Inn Between, she must wrestle with some demons-both literally and figuratively. Kara’s parents and brother disappear after the first night. When Kara’s parents stop to rest at the Inn Between, a grand Victorian hotel in the desert, Quinn is unnerved by the hotel’s strange architecture, its isolated location, and the odd guests and even odder hotel employees. Quinn is having difficulty letting go, so she makes the trip from Denver to Santa Monica with Kara and her family. A haunted hotel seeks new victims in this middle-grade suspense novel.Įleven-year-old Quinn’s best friend, Kara, is moving.
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