Day of the Monster Plant

Lunchroom #9

by Ann Hodgman, Roger Leyonmark (Illustrator)

The sixth-graders are going on a class trip to the botanical gardens to learn all about different plants. Then Rocky Latizano disappears, and suddenly things start looking pretty sinister.

108 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Published January 1, 1991

About the author

Ann Hodgman (born 1956) is an American author of more than forty children's books as well as several cookbooks and humor books and many magazine articles.

Ann was raised in Rochester, New York and graduated from Harvard College, where she was a staff member on the Harvard Lampoon and the Harvard Advocate. She was the food columnist for the magazines Spy and Eating Well. Her essay "No Wonder They Call Me a Bitch," about taste-testing various dog foods, was included in "Best American Essays." Hodgman is also known for her three cookbooks, Beat This!, Beat That! and One Bite Won't Kill You. She is the author of the 6-book vampire series My Babysitter is a Vampire and the nonfiction memoir "The House of a Million Pets."

Hodgman is married to author David Owen, a staff writer for The New Yorker, and they have two children, Laura and John.