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73 pp.
| Delacorte |
March, 1999 |
TradeISBN 0-385-32572-X$$14.95
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A green, fuzzy, chubby alien who does work in exchange for Twinkies? That's who third-graders Lexie and J. P. find in Lexie's lunchbox after Bork (the alien) rescues them from the fifth-grade bully by turning him into a baby. Readers caught up in the immediacy of Duffey's writing are not likely to question the loosely hinged premise and may even wish they could spend a few Twinkies for an alien of their own.
Reviewer: Mary Burkey
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
January, 1999