Cleanup Catastrophe!

The Secret World of Alex Mack #6

by Cathy East Dubowski

The competition is on for "Pick Up Paradise Day." It's Alex's chance to organize her schoolmates to do a fantastic community cleanup project, win the prize and show everybody-especially Scott-how special she is. And she doesn't even have to use her powers Annie thinks it's a hoot-her messy, disorganized sister organizing something? But Alex is determined to do it right. The problem is, she's trying so hard that she's driving all her classmates straight to her competitor's cleanup concert. Now only her secret powers can help But how can she risk exposure when Danielle Atron's spies are waiting to catch her in the act?

134 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1996

About the author

Cathy East Dubowski is a narrator, editor, and illustrator. She specializes in novelizations of movies and literary classics for children and young adult readers. Dubowski has written more than 100 books for children, including adaptations of The Aristocats, Frances Hodgson Burnett’s A Little Princess, and Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty.

Reviews

[Thibault Busschots · Rating 3 out of 5]

There’s a cleanup project competition. The person who can come up with the best idea to rid the town of litter gets an award. Alex really wants to win but the kids in her school don’t feel like working hard. The most popular girl in school just organizes a concert against littering, which ironically leads to more littering. Alex wants to use her powers to clean everything up but she can’t, because the competition is organized by the company responsible for the chemical spill that gave Alex her powers.


This story is mostly about Alex Mack trying to find a way to do the right thing and be the hero without using her powers for once. Which is a decent concept but if you’re reading this for nostalgic reasons like I am, it does feel like this story is missing something. Overall, a solid but rather uneventful nostalgic read.

[Alex · Rating 4 out of 5]

It might just be because I don’t feel good and this was cute and comforting, but I really loved this one.

[Alisia Riveros · Rating 4 out of 5]

These books are great for 5&6th grade girls that are looking for adventure/mystery books.