Puzzlooies! Hamster Boy and Chameleon Girl Save the Day: A Solve-the-Story Puzzle Adventure

by Russell Ginns, Cara J. Stevens, Kristen Terrana-Hollis (Illustrator), Big Yellow Taxi, Inc. (Produced by)

Overview

Snag a pencil. Sink into a silly story. Solve the puzzles and save the day!

Say goodbye to boring downtime and hello to Puzzlooies!, the latest in portable entertainment. Meant for kids to write in, these illustrated and compact books flip up like a reporter’s notebook, making them perfect for fast fun while on-the-go. Each zany adventure is packed with eclectic puzzles to decipher and decode—as well as jokes, riddles, and true trivia galore that’ll keep readers laughing 'til the very end . . . if they can reach it!

In Hamster Boy and Chameleon Girl Save the Day, frenemies Liz and Arturo mysteriously gained superpowers linked to their class pets. At first they only used their powers for school and fun. But when a thief suddenly appears, their school principal recruits them to help save their town.

Solve the puzzles inside and join forces with Hamster Boy and Chameleon Girl!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780525572145
Publisher:	Random House Children's Books
Publication date:	09/14/2021
Series:	Puzzlooies!
Pages:	80
Sales rank:	743,617
Product dimensions:	5.19(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.25(d)
Lexile:	520L (what's this?)
Age Range:	7 - 11 Years

About the Author

RUSSELL GINNS is a writer and game designer who specializes in puzzles, songs, and smart fun. He has worked on projects for a wide variety of organizations, corporations, and publications, including Sesame Workshop, Girl Scouts of America, Nintendo, and Scientific American. Russell lives and writes in Washington, D.C. He is the author of the Samantha Spinner book series, among others. To learn more about him, follow @rginns on Twitter.

Editorial Reviews

High-quality, entertaining, age-appropriate puzzles…The 16 brainteasers hit a variety of different skill sets…Visual-manipulation puzzles, a crossword, a word search, and multiple mazes keep the solving process from getting dull.” —Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2021-07-27
Can kids with superpowers solve mysterious occurrences around the school?

As the story opens, habitual troublemakers Arturo Denton and Liz Ardinvale find themselves in Principal Webb’s office once again. She sends them to help cranky science teacher Mr. Crust clean the animal cages in the lab. When a strange device zaps them with super electrotransfer rays, they both begin to display super animal powers, and after swearing them in as animal-powered superheroes, Principal Webb enlists their help to search the school for missing items. Now Hamster Boy and Chameleon Girl, they follow a trail of destruction to the lair of The Hermit—discovering that Mr. Crust had used the ray on himself and a hermit crab! Can the intrepid superkids use their new powers to save the school (and maybe the world)? Ginns and Stevens offer another very silly and puzzle-filled stand-alone adventure in the ongoing Puzzlooies! series. Sixteen puzzles of various types punctuate the tale, with answers offered at the close (some puzzle solutions don’t show how the answer was derived). There are mazes, word searches, and even ones that require cutting up a page of the book to build a solution. A break in the center offers a smattering of facts about superheroes and animals as well as some jokes. Terrana-Hollis’ grayscale cartoons depict Liz as Black and Arturo ambiguously; the Latinx heritage suggested by his given name goes unexplored.

Foolish fun that also exercises the gray matter. (Adventure. 6-11)

Kirkus Reviews