When the owner plans to sell the cow, Kek becomes despondent. Later he returns with Hannah, a friendly foster child, and talks the cow’s owner into hiring him to look after it. 9-11)įrom the author of the Animorphs series comes this earnest novel in verse about an orphaned Sudanese war refugee with a passion for cows, who has resettled in Minnesota with relatives.Īrriving in winter, Kek spots a cow that reminds him of his father’s herd, a familiar sight in an alien world. This reasonably self-contained installment closes with a truce between the siblings.
Jones, Greg is (well, generally) at least not actively malicious, and so often is he the victim of circumstance or his own schemes gone awry that readers can’t help but feel empathy. As before, the text, which is done in a legible hand-lettered–style font, is liberally interspersed with funny line drawings, many of which feature punch lines in speech balloons. On the domestic front, his ongoing wars with older brother Rodrick, would-be drummer in a would-be metal band called Löded Diper, share center stage with their mother’s generally futile parenting strategies.
After a miserable summer of avoiding swim-team practice by hiding out in the bathroom (and having to wrap himself in toilet paper to keep from freezing), he finally passes on the dreaded “cheese touch” (a form of cooties) to an unsuspecting new classmate, then stumbles through another semester of pranks and mishaps. In a second set of entries-of a planned three, all first published in somewhat different form online in installments-slacker diarist Greg starts a new school year.
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