The Two-Thousand-Pound Goldfish

By Betsy Byars and Betsy Cromer Byars

Book Overview

Abandoned by his political activist mother, who is hiding from the FBI, Warren dreams up outrageous horror movie plots in an effort to escape from reality. The young boy's ambivalent feelings are... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060208899
• ISBN13: 9780060208899
• Release Date: September 1982
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 153 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

matty's revew

In the sewers of L.A. there is a 2,000 lb. Gold fish that craves humans because it ate XX-109. This book is about an 8 year old kid that daydreams bizarre movie scripts (this movie is about a 2,000 lb. Gold fish that lives in the sewer) the boy is name is Warren and misses his mom who is on the run from the FBI.This book is fine but has some unexciting parts. And it can get very perplexing at times. It varies at times from a 3* to a 5* but more often than not incredibly first-class more than ever at the end. I give the end a faultless 5*. You would have to remember things to get the story line of warrens movie but if you concentrate and remember things it?s a great book.

Warren misses his mom

This is a pretty good book Betsy Byars wrote.At first I was wondering about the title of the book and the connections it has with the story.Later on I figured out that it represented Warren's anguish about an absentee mom. The author has effectively made us feel the depth of Warren's inner emotions by switching back and forth from his imaginative movie production to his real life situation.I was deeply touched by how Warren understood his family's situation and came to grips with his anger and sense of abandonment.