Serving justice . . . and lunch!Hector, Terrence, and Dee have always wondered about their school lunch lady. What does she do when she isn’t dishi...
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Nov 22, 2011
Kate
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A new substitute has come to take over for the math teacher, who's sick, but the lunch lady is suspicious, as the math teacher has never called in sick once during all the years he's been teaching. Meanwhile, three children are rescued from the school bully by the lunch lady.
Who IS the lunch lady, and what does she do when she's not cooking and serving lunch at school? The three students decide to find out and make plans to follow her after school.
Meanwhile, the lunch lady an More...
Who IS the lunch lady, and what does she do when she's not cooking and serving lunch at school? The three students decide to find out and make plans to follow her after school.
Meanwhile, the lunch lady an More...
Nov 07, 2011
Sara
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1. Genre: Junior Book/Graphic Novel
2. Summary: The lunch lady at Hector, Terrence, and Dee’s school spends her days serving up lunch and her nights investigating suspicious substitutes in the building. Today she, along with the students’ help, must fight off some very aggressive robots.
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a. One of the greatest strengths of this title is the use of voice.
b. Of all the voices in this story, the lunch lady’s is the strongest. She pulls the r More...
2. Summary: The lunch lady at Hector, Terrence, and Dee’s school spends her days serving up lunch and her nights investigating suspicious substitutes in the building. Today she, along with the students’ help, must fight off some very aggressive robots.
3. Critique:
a. One of the greatest strengths of this title is the use of voice.
b. Of all the voices in this story, the lunch lady’s is the strongest. She pulls the r More...
Jul 25, 2009
JustOneMoreBook.com
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Lunch Lady arrived this week and our young Jarrett fans were on these books "like cheese on macaroni". Today Lucy (10) and Bayla (8) share their thoughts on the first two books in this zany graphic novel series.
You can listen in on our chat about this book on our Just One More Book! Children's Book Podcast.
For a behind the scenes glimpse at the making of Lunch Lady , check out our video interview with author and illustrator Jarrett Krosoczka:
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You can listen in on our chat about this book on our Just One More Book! Children's Book Podcast.
For a behind the scenes glimpse at the making of Lunch Lady , check out our video interview with author and illustrator Jarrett Krosoczka:
Rock Stars o More...
Apr 07, 2009
Carter
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I think there's a lot of really fun stuff in here and the characters are going to be great. BUT it feels like it's just not quite there yet. Granted, I'm sure Lunch Lady is going to find a lot of fans and I do look forward to reading the next three (I think that's where he's at now).
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The dialog is a little tricky at places. Part of this is it's not always clear who's saying what in the dialog boxes. This means that the kids aren't defined enough More...
Some more or less specifics:
The dialog is a little tricky at places. Part of this is it's not always clear who's saying what in the dialog boxes. This means that the kids aren't defined enough More...
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Nov 08, 2011
Amy
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1) Genre: Graphic Novel
2) When a substitute teacher acts suspicious, leave it up to the lunch lady to investigate the situation! Later, when she finds out the substitute teacher is actually a robot, she uses the help of the students to restore the school back to its original “normal” state.
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a) I loved the humor/sarcasm in the book.
b) The humor/sarcasm within the book really brought the characters to life. I couldn’t stop rea More...
2) When a substitute teacher acts suspicious, leave it up to the lunch lady to investigate the situation! Later, when she finds out the substitute teacher is actually a robot, she uses the help of the students to restore the school back to its original “normal” state.
3) Critique:
a) I loved the humor/sarcasm in the book.
b) The humor/sarcasm within the book really brought the characters to life. I couldn’t stop rea More...
Dec 15, 2009
Allison
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Krosoczka, Jarrett J. Lunch Lady and the Cyborg Substitute 96 pgs. Knopf Books for Young Readers Language~G; Sexual Content~G Violence~G
It’s a bird, It’s a plane. . . . . it’s the Lunch Lady? That’s right! This lunch lady serves justice up on a plastic tray! In this exciting and hilarious episode a substitute teacher arrives at school. Something smells fish-sticky and the Lunch Lady is on the case. Using her special gadgets provided to her by her sidekick Betty, Lunch Lady begin More...
It’s a bird, It’s a plane. . . . . it’s the Lunch Lady? That’s right! This lunch lady serves justice up on a plastic tray! In this exciting and hilarious episode a substitute teacher arrives at school. Something smells fish-sticky and the Lunch Lady is on the case. Using her special gadgets provided to her by her sidekick Betty, Lunch Lady begin More...
Jul 03, 2011
Christen
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Meet the Breakfast Bunch, Terrance, Hector, and Dee. When a substitute teacher arrives at the school, his unusual behavior arouses the suspicion of the Lunch Lady, leading her to investigate in her own unusual way. In the secret lair, sidekick Betty creates lunch-related gadgets like the lunch tray laptop and spork phone that help Lunch Lady uncover the mystery of the substitute and his villainous leader. Alternating points of view from the Lunch Ladies and the Breakfast Bunch give insights into
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Aug 10, 2011
Christen
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Meet the Breakfast Bunch, Terrance, Hector, and Dee. When a substitute teacher arrives at the school, his unusual behavior arouses the suspicion of the Lunch Lady, leading her to investigate in her own unusual way. In the secret lair, sidekick Betty creates lunch-related gadgets like the lunch tray laptop and spork phone that help Lunch Lady uncover the mystery of the substitute and his villainous leader. Alternating points of view from the Lunch Ladies and the Breakfast Bunch give insights into
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Nov 10, 2009
Nicola
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This elementary graphic novel is the first in a new series that features superhero Lunch Lady who works in the school cafeteria until crime or devious plots against students bring her secret identity out of hiding to fight crime. In this book both The Breakfast Club and Lunch Lady discover a diabolical plot to replace all the nice teachers with nasty cyborg substitute teachers. Honestly, the plot was way out there for me and the villain's reasoning just didn't cut it. What I did like was Lunch L
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Feb 04, 2012
Elizabeth
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From a student's perspective the life of the lunch lady looks normal and fairly boring. Making food for students everyday seems predictable. The students at this school are in for a surprise when they decide to follow their lunch lady one day to see what she really does. For this is no ordinary lunch lady, she's a lean, mean fighting machine, and she's going after the new substitute . . .
This is a quick fun read that fans of The Adventures of Captain Underpants and Diary of a Wimpy Kid More...
This is a quick fun read that fans of The Adventures of Captain Underpants and Diary of a Wimpy Kid More...
Aug 31, 2009
Joella
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What does your lunch lady do when school is out? These two lunch ladies are secret agent crime fighters. With a spatu-copter that is a mini helicopter to escape bad guys, chicken nugget bombs, and fish stick nunchucks, this lunch lady can do anything! Which is good, because this time the lunch lady is needed to help save the school from an evil teacher and his cyborg substitutes. (The evil teacher wants all the substitutes to be awful and give loads of homework so the kids will vote for Mr. evil
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Dec 15, 2010
Christina
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I was introduced to the Lunch Lady Series when I was at a Children's books workshop over the summer..As the instructor introduced this series, the librarian next to me told me that she owns this series..The librarian told me that the kids love this series, and she can't keep the books on the shelf!! I decided to buy the first three books for my library...All three books went to the first class that had a chance to check out the books. The three girls who had the books decided to sit together..an
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Nov 06, 2009
Mary Ann
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Hector, Dee and Terrence, three friends who make up the Breakfast Bunch, start wondering about what the Lunch Lady does when she isn't serving lunch. "I'm telling you, they probably lead very boring lives!" Dee says. Meanwhile, Lunch Lady and her faithful assistant Betty, suspect that something fishy with the new substitute. As Betty distracts him with freshly baked cookies, Lunch Lady brings her lunch-tray laptop to his room to investigate. A crazy chase ensues, with our superhero
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Jan 21, 2011
Brendan
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Sep 28, 2009
Raina
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VERY cute graphic novel for the elementary set. I really liked the way the author took something uber-familiar (the school setting) and twisted it into something super-cool (superheroes fighting evil robots). This is true in the big picture realm (lunch lady, school setting), and at the small level (fish sticks, lunch trays, etc. all turn into crime-fighting gadgets). I also appreciated the stereotype breakdown that occurs. The girl's the one who's gonna fight all the baddies, the kid with b
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Jul 20, 2011
Paula
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Too funny! If you are old enough to remember the TV show, Get Smart, that is what this graphic novel reminds me of.The lunch ladies have gadgets, a hidden entrance to the boiler room and intel equipment. She fearlessly goes after bank robbers and foils their robbery attempt with some gooey sloppy joe streaming from her scooter. One day a new substitute appears, and to the lunch ladies, there was something off about him...so with gadgets in hand, they begin a hilarious investigation that sweeps u
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Jan 16, 2011
Kelly
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Not bad, it's funny and has some foreshadowing in it. I like how the story starts pretty much as soon as you open the book. After reading Babymouse, this one required a lot more attention - to the faces of the characters and to more words and to the pictures like it probably is supposed to be in a graphic novel. It's like reading a comic strip - you have to know what the pictures say besides just the words. The Lunch Lady does have funny lines and I like how food is incorporated into the story,
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Apr 10, 2011
Amy
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Our "Lunch Lady" at MCS is someone that I adore and have great respect for. I couldn't help but think of her as I perused this hilarious graphic novel about a crime-fighting lunch lady with a sweet, yet small set of elementary students who "have her back" when it comes to solving a crime within the school. Her frustrations are expressed in terms like "Oh Sauerkraut" and she has a spork that helps her communicate with her assistant in crime solving. Very creative.
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Apr 17, 2010
Tricia
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Funny graphic novels for the younger set. My 6 and 9 year old sons think these are hilarious. I find them a couple french fries short of a full lunch - that is, a little weak. But there is nothing objectionable in the content, so if you have a younger child who wants some graphic novels like the big kids, this would be a good intro to the genre.
Aside: it's clear that GoodReads isn't popular with science teachers, otherwise more than 50% of the reviews of this book would mention how More...
Aside: it's clear that GoodReads isn't popular with science teachers, otherwise more than 50% of the reviews of this book would mention how More...
Aug 10, 2010
Erin
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This one came across as cute and fun- I love it when the Lunch Lady curses by naming vegetables such as cauliflower and sweet potatoes. She also gets great gadgets- chicken nugget grenades and a spatula helicopter. So, Lunch lady gets great points for creativity. However, I didn't find the story, complex, compelling, or even very interesting. The art is mediocre with simple fun lines and yellow highlights of the greyscale images that brings interest without getting overwhelming. I'm just no
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Jan 31, 2010
Kristen
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This graphic novel is hilarious and fantastic! You discover that the Lunch Lady has some seriously cool super powers and a sidekick that invents all sorts of cool gadgets. They have a secret room behind the broiler where they meet. Some awesome gadgets found in this book: spatula that turns into a mini-copter, milk-cam, lunch-try laptop, mole communicator that goes to a Spork Phone, rubber glove suction cups, cannoli-oculars, chicken nugget bombs, fish stick nunchucks, hairnet net, and an electr
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Jan 13, 2010
Nick
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While the artwork could be better, the story is cute, clever, and a good graphic novel for kids who have been reading things like the Sideways School stories or the Teacher from the Black Lagoon stories. It's easy for kids to imagine the "real lives" of the teachers and other school employees, but this story creates those lives for the school lunch lady and her assistant, who turn out to be high-tech fighters of rather surreal crimes. Their tools include fish-stick nunchuks and explodi
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Sep 27, 2009
Abby
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Lunch Lady is not your average cafeteria worker. In addition to serving hot lunch, she has a secret identity -- crime fighter! This comic is hilarious and silly, and will confirm the suspicions of any third-grader who knows that substitute teachers are most definitely NOT human. . . One particularly delightful detail: the cafeteria items doubling as high-tech gizmos, such as the spatu-copter and the lunch tray laptop. This book is the first in a series; I can't wait to read the next one, in whic
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Jun 14, 2009
Scope
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Remember when you were in school and the cafeteria was serving pizza for lunch? There was always a bit of excitement on those days. Sure, it wasn't the best pizza in the world, but it was still pizza. The allure of the food outweighed the fact that it wasn't always stellar eatin'. Such is the feeling I got while reading Lunch Lady and the Cyborg Substitute, the first installment of Jarrett J. Krosoczka's graphic novel series for young readers. What it lacks in character development, it makes up
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Mar 30, 2011
Ubalstecha
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Three friends, Hector, Terrence, and Dee have always wondered about their lunch lady. Something always seemed off. But never in their wildest dreams could they imagine that she was superhero/secret agent with a lair full of gadgets.
Then one day, their favourite math teacher get sick and is replaced by someone who is too good to be true. Because he is a cyborg. Can the Lunch Lady stop the Cyborg Substitutes sinister plan to replace all the teachers with robots before it's too late More...
Then one day, their favourite math teacher get sick and is replaced by someone who is too good to be true. Because he is a cyborg. Can the Lunch Lady stop the Cyborg Substitutes sinister plan to replace all the teachers with robots before it's too late More...
Nov 28, 2011
Tonya
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Graphic Novel
This book is about a cool lunchlady named Betty. Betty is different from the stereotypical lunch lady in that she rides a motorscooter. What stands out about her is she wears yellow accessories, including a yellow apron and yellow rubber gloves and she also has a hideout in the boiler room in which she keeps her special things. During the story, the attention is taken off of the lunchlady when the most popular teacher in school becomes sick and is replaced by a substitu More...
This book is about a cool lunchlady named Betty. Betty is different from the stereotypical lunch lady in that she rides a motorscooter. What stands out about her is she wears yellow accessories, including a yellow apron and yellow rubber gloves and she also has a hideout in the boiler room in which she keeps her special things. During the story, the attention is taken off of the lunchlady when the most popular teacher in school becomes sick and is replaced by a substitu More...
Nov 17, 2009
Bobby
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A cute premise and clever/dumb food puns and weapons more than make up for the somewhat tame adventures of a school lunch lady with a crime-fighting alter-ego. Fans of Babymouse should enjoy this or at least the publisher seemingly hopes so since both series are nearly identical in size and format (although Babymouse's color palette is black, white, and pink and Lunch Lady's is black, white, and yellow). A tasty series that young readers will gobble up (see I can make clever/dumb food puns too
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Apr 18, 2011
Cynthia
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My boys found this series of four graphic novels to be laugh out loud hilarious. And what's not to love about a super-hero like lunch lady who uses Taco-vision night goggles, hamburger headphones and a spork phone? These are just a few of her nifty gadgets and some of her witty remarks will have you laughing too. This is a great graphic novel for elementary age children. My boys usually like to be read to, but I find them persuing these books on their own.
Aug 21, 2009
Mary
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The first in the Lunch Lady series, this one is GREAT! Reluctant readers, graphic novel fans, boys and girls (of all ages) will enjoy this. What's not to love? A lunch lady who secretly fights crime, using such gadgets as a helicopter spatula, spork communicator, and chicken nugget bombs? Robots posing as substitute teachers? A not-so-witty bully (and his sychophantic sidekick) who is put in his place? ALL good.
Aug 31, 2009
E.
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This new graphic novel for kids by Jarrett Krosoczka is laugh-out-loud funny and perfect for summer reading. I mean, what's not to love about a comic book that features a vigilante lunch lady as the hero? Filled with silly puns and hilarious hijinx, this work of comic genius is destined for greatness. Kids, teachers, parents, librarians, kid-lit-loving grownups and, yes, LUNCH LADIES will love this title.
