Ketchup Power and the Starship Meatloaf

By Jerry Piasecki

The crew of the Starship Meatloaf travels from the year 6789 to the present in order to find the lost recipe for ketchup, the fuel of the future. As they move back in time, the crew members become... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0440414016
• ISBN13: 9780440414018
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Yearling
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.3" x 5.0"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Funny and Clever!

Ketchup Power and the Starship Meatloaf is a very funny, witty, intelligently-written story comparable to Captain Underpants in its humor, although it is considerably longer and has no illustrations. In the far future, ketchup has become the primary fuel source, leading to the invention of synthochup, a syntethic ketchup fuel that eventually destroys the devices using it for power. People forgot how to make real ketchup, and now they need it desperately. So, four people decide to use the Starship Meatloaf to travel back several thousand years to our time to get the recipe for "real true-red ketchup." The problem is, due to the effects of time travel, every member of the Meatloaf crew has become a kid again. Now, stranded thousands of years back in time as children, the crew has to find the ketchup recipe and return home while hiding undercover as grade school students. The length of the book and the lack of pictures might cause younger readers to shy away from this one, but older ones (about ten or eleven and up) will love it!