** spoiler alert ** GENRE: Fiction, science-fiction, adventure, humor.

SUMMARY: After twelve-year-old Lily Gefelty visits the bizarre abandoned warehouse where her dad works, she suspects something sinister must be behind the secret manufacturing of stilts for whales. She enlists her two best friends, adventurous and daring Katie and ingenious yet quirky Jasper to help her uncover the mystery behind the warehouse. They learn that the boss of the company is planning to take over the world, using whales, and that they only have a few days to stop his dastardly plans!

EVALUATION: I loved this book. It was enjoyable as upending a can of whipped cream and spraying it into my mouth--not something I do regularly, but lots of fun once in a while. I laughed from the start all the way to the end. The book is loaded with adventure and suspense as well, but it was the ridiculous situations and the funny responses the characters would say that hooked me.

WHY I WOULD INCLUDE IT: I strongly believe that many, many tweens will thoroughly enjoy this book. It never takes itself seriously, and that is part of the charm. It is strange, weird, and as I said, extremely humorous. Put simply, this is an easy-to-read, highly entertaining and pleasurable book.

READER'S ANNOTATION: A trio of friends must enact a plan to save their town from whale domination, after a crazed scientist unleashes his army of whales on stilts.

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