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Grade 4-6-Prolific Korman once again successfully employs his tried-and-true formula: zany situations; a fast pace; likable, well-drawn characters; contemporary dialogue; and lots of humor. In this current offering, he combines several unlikely sixth-graders from Minnesota's South Middle School, including a hotshot hockey star; an animal-rights activist steeped in pop psychology; a computer nerd who writes slimy, bloody screenplays; and a young scientist trying to fit into a new school as well as impress his Nobel Prize-winning scientist father. When a chicken named Henrietta, the key component of Milo Neal's science-fair project on food chains, also becomes the hockey team's mascot and only chance at winning the championship, conflict ensues. Feelings escalate when the students realize that Milo's plan for completing the link in the chain actually involves fried chicken, and a series of highly improbable but very funny events occur. That computer nerd Zach, who has never been on the team, is discovered to be an awesome goalie is perhaps the biggest stretch of all, and yet perfect in the context of the book. Similarly, the resolution is neat, pat, and yet satisfying. Told from alternating first-person perspectives that nicely reveal lots about each character, the novel is sure to appeal to Korman's many fans who are willing to suspend disbelief for a rollicking story.
Connie Tyrrell Burns, Mahoney Middle School, South Portland, ME
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Connie Tyrrell Burns, Mahoney Middle School, South Portland, ME
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Gr. 4^-6. The South Middle School Rangers hockey team is in a serious slump until a wayward chicken named Henrietta, who belongs in a cage in Mrs. Baggio's science room, finds itself sitting on the Rangers' bench. A mascot is born. But Henrietta, the key ingredient in Milo Neal's science-fair project, "The Complete Life Cycle of a Link in the Food Chain," has a date with destiny. Milo plans to eat Henrietta on the floor of the science fair, thus completing his link in the food chain. Using alternating first-person narrators, Korman tells the hilarious story of how a group of kids with little in common--the hockey star, the class dweeb, the animal-rights activist--are thrown together in the hullabaloo over Henrietta's fate. Korman has the voices of these middle-school kids down cold; the silly chicken humor works because the kids' reactions--their 12-year-old cynicism, their pubescent ruthlessness, their oh-so-carefully-hidden vulnerability--are as real as the main plot is outrageous. This is a genuinely funny, refreshingly unpretentious novel. Bill Ott
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
chicken+hockey=comical,
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This review is from: The Chicken Doesn't Skate (Paperback)
A humorous story about a chicken named Henrietta and the hockey culture of an American elementary school. Milo Neal, son of scientist Victor Neal, raises a specimen for a science project about the life cycle. The entire class and hockey team becomes involved in caring for Henrietta, adopting her as mascot and hero. Everyone is outraged to learn that Milo's final step will be to sacrifice the specimen for his experiment. Henrietta is kidnapped and attends a hockey game against a winning Canadian team. Henrietta brings victory on the ice and then escapes in a flurry from the rink to the school's exhibit hall, flying right into the arms of Milo Neal. What will be her fate? It is well written with the usual humor, excitement and crazy antics that can be expected of Korman. The reader is drawn into the story, knows the characters and worries for the chicken's life. Chapter entries are written from varying points of view, including: Adam Lurie (team captain), Zachary Gustafson (student and writer), Milo Neal (Henrietta's owner), Mrs. Baggio (science teacher), Joey Sorrrentino (hockey player), Kelly Marie Ginsberg (student and want to be psychologist) and Coach Crenshaw. The title should appeal to a middle elementary school audience.
4.0 out of 5 stars
The Chicken Doesn't Skate,
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This review is from: The Chicken Doesn't Skate (Paperback)
This book loves chickens! In the a boy named Milo Neal the school science geek gets a baby chick to study for a science fair. He wants to study how it fits into the food chain, but when he takes it school everybody goes crazy. The name her Henrietta and make her their hockey mascot. Everybody falls in love with Henrietta. Milo is going to cook the chicken to complete th project. Will Henrietta live or will she be eaten!By, Cory
4.0 out of 5 stars
SCIENCE PROJECTS ARE NOT PETS!,
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This review is from: The Chicken Doesn't Skate (Paperback)
In the chicken doesn't skate a kid named Milo Neal(who moved from L.A. to Minnesota), has a science project to do for his sixth grade class. When he decides to do it on a chicken, everybody wants to make it a class pet. Everybody ignores him and someone new takes the chicken home each weekend.Zachary Gustafson loves to write movie scripts. He thinks that he will never be able to get it to a person in the movie business, until he meets Milo. Milo is the son of the famous Victor Neal(a great scientist who has his own T.V. show, and he has won several emmy awards). Zachary thinks that if he becomes Milo's bestfriend he can give Milo some of his scripts to give to his dad, to give to some big Hollywood producer. So Zachary tries to become best friends with Milo, thinking that if they were friends Milo would give some of Zachary's scripts to him. But the truth be told, Milo doesn't like Zach. The Ranger hockey team is 0-5 and they need a miracle to win any of their games. Then the Chicken Henrietta appeared at one of their games and they won it! The team thinks that the Chicken is good luck. Just when everybody gets really excited about having the chicken, Milo must compete the final phase for his project.
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