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Age Range: 8 - 11 years
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Lexile Measure: 590 (What's this?)
Paperback: 151 pages
Publisher: Holiday House; Reprint edition (March 1, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0823419401
ISBN-13: 978-0823419401
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Product Details
Age Range: 8 - 11 years
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Lexile Measure: 590 (What's this?)
Paperback: 151 pages
Publisher: Holiday House; Reprint edition (March 1, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0823419401
ISBN-13: 978-0823419401
Life is miserable for sixth-grader Lerner Chanse at her new school, where the MPOOE (Most Powerful Ones on Earth) Club ruthlessly rules over the SLUGs (Sorry Losers Under Ground). Then Lerner accidentally discovers that her pet worm Fip eats paper - with startling results...When he eats a label with the words "Mack's Thumbtacks", all Mack's thumbtacks instantly vanish and papers slip from bulletin boards everywhere! It seems that if Fip eats a word, that item simply disappears from the world - forever. Now that Lerner knows about Fip's magic, she has some extraordinary powers of her own - and some big decisions to make. Should she eliminate crime? Her mean neighbour Bobby Nitz's evil dog? Or simply wipe Cleveland Park Middle School off the face of the earth? Or will destroying anything cause effects that she can't imagine or predict? Lerner soon discovers that extraordinary power brings extraordinary responsibility - but will she learn her lesson in time?
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
This first novel may hold some appeal for bookworms, but a multitude of subplots proves distracting and weakens the tension. There are two basic story lines. The first revolves around a newborn worm named Fip, whose appetite runs to words rather than dirt. The second centers on sixth-grader Lerner Chase, recentlyAand unhappilyAtransplanted from Wisconsin to Washington, D.C. Lerner discovers Fip and realizes that every time he eats a word, the object it signifies disappears forever. The results of Fip's consumption can be pleasant (Fip eats a vending machine number and unleashes free chocolate bars) or dire (Fip eats the name of a newly charted star, sending its discoverer into a crisis). These developments occasion secondary story lines (e.g., about a sinister tycoon who employs thumb tacks and child labor to train the vicious dogs he sells as "Attackaterriers"). Amato plausibly sketches Lerner's evolving sense of responsibility about Fip's powers, including her panic when he almost eats the word "oxygen" and the name of her teacher Mr. Droan (but ends up devouring the words "Markus Droan's suit" instead.) The classroom dynamics between the ruling elite, Most Powerful Ones on Earth (MPOOEs), and the outcasts, Sorry Losers Under Ground (SLUGs), are believable enough, but with the exception of Lerner, most characters emerge as caricatures or types. Ages 8-12. (June)
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Library Binding edition.
From School Library Journal
Grade 4-6-The book opens with the turn of a page on the Bookworm's Desk Calendar, heralding the birth of a seemingly ordinary worm. But this is no common creature, for readers soon learn that he has a voracious appetite for the written word. It is sixth-grade Lerner Chanse who discovers that when Fip eats a word, that object disappears-forever. Lerner is having a hard time finding her place in her new school. She doesn't want any part of the MPOOE club (Most Powerful Ones on Earth), nor does she want to belong to the only other group-the SLUGS (Sorry Losers Under Ground). In a series of clever, if far-fetched events, she daringly uses Fip's power to turn the tide on the MPOOEs. Tongue-in-cheek wordplay in the quote on the desk calendar that opens each chapter prepares readers for the outlandish series of happenings to come.
Doris Gebel, Northport-East Northport Public Library, NY
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Library Binding edition.
From Booklist
Gr. 4-6. A hungry baby worm and a lonesome sixth-grade girl named Lerner join forces to create a surprising amount of havoc in this first novel. Fip the worm prefers paper to dirt, but Lerner quickly realizes that whatever Fip eats disappears. For instance, when he eats the words "vending machine," the machine disappears, leaving a pile of candy on the floor. This becomes a moral dilemma for Lerner, as the power to have things disappear can have weighty consequences. If the pace is choppy and the weaving of several side plots (including one involving child labor) becomes confusing, the basic idea is creative, and Amato delivers some intriguing moments. REVWR
Copyright ? American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Library Binding edition.
From Kirkus Reviews
An overstuffed tale that will nevertheless wriggle its way into readers' affections, starring an out-crowd sixth grader and a tiny, worm-like creature who can make anything vanish by eating the word for it. Hatchling Fip's taste for the printed word may be judged unacceptably runtly and weakish by his earthworm clan, but when he munches on an empty thumbtack box, loose papers suddenly avalanche from bulletin boards nationwide. Fip doesn't stop there; unhappily on her way to being dubbed a SLUG (Sorry Loser Under Ground) by the classroom coterie MPOOE (Most Powerful Ones On Earth), Lerner Chanse spots him sampling an article about a newly discovered star. Learning later that the star has vanished from the skies, she confirms her suspicion by nudging him onto the school lunch menu (no more spinach soufflé--anywhere, ever again). Has Lerner found the way to acceptance--or to universal disaster? Both, as it turns out, though ensuing misadventures ranging from the near-catastrophic--as when Fip nearly eats the word oxygen out of her science homework--to the hilarious teach her that her little buddy's ability is definitely nothing to trifle with. In the end, the universe is saved when a clever bookworm entices Fip to gobble down the words Fip's magic. To drive home the point that actions can have unintended, far-reaching repercussions, Amato trucks in a sackful of side plots, including one wildly tangential tale involving a ruthless businessman who finally gets proper comeuppance for using thumbtacks, manufactured by captive children, to train attack dogs. Several stories bundled together, this amiable cautionary tale, often reminiscent of Clifton Fadiman's Wally the Wordworm or Mary Haynes's more melodramatic Wordchanger , makes a promising, if undisciplined, debut. (Fiction. 10-12) -- Copyright ? 2000 Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Library Binding edition.
Review
"An overstuffed tale that will...wriggle is way into readers affections."
About the Author
Mary Amato is now known for her comic middle-grade novels. "The Word Eater" was Ms. Amato's first novel. She is also the author of "Snarf Attack", "Underfoodle, and the Secret of Life: The Riot Brothers Tell All", as well as "The Naked Mole-Rat Letters". Ms. Amato is a storyteller, poet, puppeteer, mask-maker, and quilt-maker, too. She makes her home just outside Washington, D.C.
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