More funny stories! D. L. Garfinkle has written two books in her Supernatural Rubber Chicken series so far, with a third due out on Sept. 9. I read the first one, Fowl Language, this morning and was instantly hooked. In this story, 10-year-old twins Lisa and Nate Zupinski become the owners of a rubber chicken when their older brother Dave leaves home "to ride the waves on far of shores." The chicken (whose name is Ed) has the power to grant wishes, and Ed's owner gets to decide what the wish will be. The trick is that the owners cannot benefit from the wish -- it has to be someone else. Naturally, when Lisa and Nate try to help their friends by granting them super powers, things don't go as planned.
The three kids' mother is a children's book author who really wants to win the Newbery award, so she writes "award winning children's books which children had to be forced to read." Clearly, Garfinkle has the kids in mind as she writes, rather than the parents and teachers. Yeah! Fowl Language was really funny, and I'm looking forward to reading more of this series.
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