The Snarkout Boys and the Baconburg Horror

By Daniel Pinkwater

Book Overview

A mystery about Iyanthropy, a master criminal, a great detective & various other creatures of the night.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451135814
• ISBN13: 9780451135810
• Release Date: May 1985
• Publisher: Signet Book
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

Borgelnuskies, werewolves and fire! Oh my!

When I was in fifth grade, I thought this was the funniest and most entertaining book in the world. Twenty years later, despite high school, college and law school, my opinion of it is just as high. This is a wild, wacky, cult-classic that kids, young adults and even parents can read, enjoy and re-read over and over. The sequel to _The Snarkout Boys & the Avocado of Death_, the book features the return of snarkers Walter, Winston and Rat, as well as Uncle Flipping; Osgood Sigerson and Dr. Sacker; the Mighty Gorilla; and that rascally Napoleon of Crime, Wallace Nussbaum. Just as the young snarkers discover the Dharma Buns Coffee House and a rising Transylvanian poet, the city of Baconburg begins to be terrorized nightly by something dark and fast and ... furry? A werewolf?! Quick, grab your stuffed Indian fruit bat and defend yourself!Just as in _Avocado_, Pinkwater writes simply and clearly, deftly weaving the different plot-threads into a (literally) blazing finale. Quite simply, this is a great, often gut-busting, blissfully zany ride. (I only wish he'd write another one!) I ordered a copy off the internet, read it twice, and am donating it to my local library so that kids can enjoy it just as much as I did, back 'in the day'. Praise St. Barbara of Blint, five burning stars!

It may not be life changing but it sure is good

Wow. I've read most of the Daniel Pinkwater books and this is one of my favorites. How can you go wrong with characters called Rat, Heinz, and Uncle Flipping? His obsession with strange names and chareacters and fast food definitely shows up in this book!If you liked this book you would probably like the book Alan Mendelson, The Boy from Mars.CHEERS!

Whoop! Wow! The Devil Gonna Get Us!!

When I read this book in my early nubile childhood , I thought it was just a pretty darn funny piece o' work. Now that I'm a wee bit older and wiser I look back on Snarkout with a sort of awe, respecting it for the sheer genious and underground artistry. Werewolves, crazy speeches, donuts, hotdogs, cult movies, bitter rejects and terrible poets. Every man woman and child should experience belly lauaghter. It deserves to be the first cult classic childrens book.

Amazing.

This book is fantastic. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants a great quick read

Werewolves, beat poetry, borgelnuskies - the stuff of life.

One of my favorite books of all time, which may seem like an odd thing (It's in there with Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood and Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake)but no book to me so accurately captures the wonder of wandering around any city late at night, eating at skanky diners (both horridly magnificent and magnificently horrid) and having the sort of strange encounters that only seem capable of happening at 2a.m. Werewolves, beat poetry, borgelnuskies, The Mighty Gorilla -- Mr. Pinkwater tells the truth, but tells it slant. Trust me, it's all in there. I just hope it comes back into print some day (I xeroxed my copy at the Royal Oak Public Library.