Andy Shane and the Pumpkin Trick (With Hardcover Book) Book

When pranksters ruin Dolores Starbuckle’s pumpkins, Andy puts his trickiest plan to the test in this humorous tale filled with Halloween fun.

Andy Shane does not want to go to Dolores Starbuckle’s birthday party. It’s on the same day as Halloween! Plus, Dolores is always ordering Andy around or squealing over his marble collection. But when Dolores tells Andy that someone is smashing pumpkins in front of her house, the thought of tricking the tricksters is too appealing to resist. Maybe he could scare off the vandals and give Dolores a really great present, all at the same time! Andy Shane returns in a second upbeat tale for early
chapter-book readers.

Children's Literature

Bossy Dolores Starbuckle needs help because tricksters keep smashing the Halloween pumpkins on her front porch. She and long-suffering friend, Andy, concoct several plans, including dressing as ghosts in flowered sheets, to foil the vandals. Nothing works, till Andy uses his marbles (the round, glass kind) in an ingenious scheme that surprises the mean kids and Dolores. Funny and fresh, this early reader shows two very unlike kids combining strengths to solve a problem. With consummate skill, the author and illustrator show how quiet Andy learns to hold his own against larger-than-life Dolores.