Lolo & Red-Legs

By Kirk Reeve

Book Overview

Have a pet tarantula? No way Or so eleven-year-old Lolo thought before he found a Mexican red-leg outside the fort he built with friends Frankie and Mario. When Lolo's abuelo shows him how to capture... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 197705918X
• ISBN13: 9781977059185
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

I know Kirk Reeve

Mr.Kirk Reeve is my math teacher. He is a really brilliant teacher and person. I know that this book must be good if it is written by Mr.Kirk Reeve. I liked this book really much. I am Eric Chang and this is my review.

I thought that this book was pretty good.

LoLo and Red Legs is written by Kirk Reeves. This book takes place in Los Lomitas which is a town situated near Los Angeles, California. There are four main characters in this book. LoLo is the most important character. He is a Hispanic teenager who lives in Los Lomitas. Red Legs is the tarantula that LoLo catches from a hole near the fort that he and his friends built together over summer vacation. Frankie and Mario are LoLo's best friends who frequently get into mischief. The story is about a boy named LoLo who decides to catch a Tarantula and Keep it as a pet. When he asks his abuelo or grandfather how he can catch the tarantula, his grandfather tells him to take some meat, a jar, and a piece of string. After listening to his grandfathers instructions, they go together to catch the tarantula. When LoLo catches the tarantula he decides to name it Red Legs. Later in the story LoLo goes to a pet store called Animales Domesticales where he meets the owner named Mr. Verdugo who becomes friends with LoLo while teaching LoLo about Red Legs. Mr. Verdugo invites LoLo to show Red Legs at the county fair. A couple of weeks later LoLo realizes that he has lost Red Legs when he finds that the fort where he kept red Legs is destroyed. With Red Legs missing he begins to feel down. For a while in the story LoLo suspects a person named Joker and his brother Danny of taking his spider. But later LoLo finds out that Joker isn't the thief. He begins to wonder what really happened to Red Legs. Is he dead stolen or just missing? if you want to find out for yourself go to your nearest book seller and buy it.