Product Description

Underground paintball adventure. (RL2.7) (20070401)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #595637 in Books
• Published on: 2006-03-01
• Released on: 2006-03-01
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .30" h x 4.30" w x 7.04" l, .22 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 112 pages

From School Library Journal
Grade 9 Up–In Sewer Rats, Jim and his friends are part of a league of paintballers who play in the town's sewers. When a member of their team sabotages a match, her mates try to confront her. She runs into the tunnels when a rainstorm hits, and they must find her before the water rises. Suspense builds as Jim tries to overcome his fear in the drainpipes. In Chat Room, Linda, a quiet underclassman, strikes up conversations with a mysterious Cyrano in her school's new monitored chat room, only to find that her visions of the real Cyrano are far from the truth. Butcher hammers home warnings about online predators, and the chat dialogue is less than authentic with its complete sentences and absence of lingo. Real chatters will see past the façade, but the topic will generate some interest. With short chapters and written in an easy style, both books will appeal to reluctant readers. Adequate choices for heavily circulating paperback collections.–Delia Carruthers, Sunset Ridge Middle School, West Jordan, UT
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Review
"A good choice for reluctant readers in grades 7-10." (Washington State Revew Group 20060623)

"...an easy booktalk to reluctant readers." (Voya 20060918)

"...entertaining and educational...sure to captivate reluctant readers...Highly Recommended" (CM Magazine 20061001)

no details (School Library Journal )

"Excellent" (Resource Links )

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
"The teachers can't do nothing to us," Lisa told him, crossing her arms. The paintball wars aren't on school property.

"But—," Micky tried. It was like trying to stop a hurricane.

"Do you think I care what the teachers think?" Lisa asked. "They think we band together because no one else likes us. And we're proud to agree with them, aren't we?"

Micky shrugged. When people called us losers, it just made our group stronger.

"It's the Medford gang I care about," Lisa continued. "The Sewer Rats have never lost a paintball war and we're not going to chicken out now. (20060918)