The Secret Life of Billie's Uncle Myron
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Eleven-year-old Billie is tired of her life: Her rock star parents are always on tour. They spend more time with agents and photographers than with Billie and her baby brother, Bix. So when mysterious Uncle Myron pulls up to their hotel in his Cadillac convertible, Billie has a brilliant idea: She and Bix will stow away in the backseat until their parents are worried enough to come and find them.
But before long, the car is flying through the air on its way to Borderland, a strange place where marshmallows are priceless, elephants dance in nightclubs, and a giant amphibian called the Kingfish rules with an iron tail. When Bix is kidnapped by the evil Kingfish, Billie must trust the bizarre creatures of the Borderland to help her rescue him.
This hilarious, wacky adventure, narrated by a smart, sassy heroine, is sure to keep even the most reluctant readers hooked.
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An Alice in Wonderland-style plot and a madcap pace propel the reader through this wild adventure about a girl and her little brother who ride a Cadillac to a land where crows talk, motels fly and an evil leader named Kingfish tries to ply them with vats of pudding. Billie is bored because her parents, who are rock stars, leave her alone in hotel rooms as they do concert tours around the world. So she hides with Bix, her brother, in the back of her Uncle Myron's car-but she doesn't realize she'll end up in Borderland ("between where you came from and where you are going"), alone and as disoriented as Alice down the rabbit hole. Separated from Bix, she spends most of her time locating him (in the clutches of the perfidious Kingfish) and then rescuing him. With plenty of fizz and pizzazz, this story is as frenetic as a Saturday morning cartoon, complete with motorcyle-riding amphibians, dancing elephants and bizarre humans. Len Jenkin is an award-winning playwright, and Emily Jenkins is his daughter. This lushly colored crazy quilt of a fantasy is their first children's book. Ages 10-13.
