Read and Download Ebook The Zucchini Warriors... The Zucchini Warriors Gordon Korman PDF File: The Zucchini Warriors... 1 Read and Download Ebook The Zucchini Warriors... The Zucchini Warriors Gordon Korman The Zucchini Warriors Gordon Korman Roommates Bruno and Boots find obstacles in their way as they attempt to lead the Macdonald Hall Zucchini Warriors to a victorious football season and earn the reward of a new recreation center. The Zucchini Warriors Details Date : Published June 1st 1991 by Scholastic (first published January 1st 1988) ISBN : 9780590441742 Author : Gordon Korman Format : Paperback 208 pages Genre : Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Humor, Funny, Cultural, Canada Download The Zucchini Warriors ...pdf Read Online The Zucchini Warriors ...pdf Download and Read Free Online The Zucchini Warriors Gordon Korman PDF File: The Zucchini Warriors... 2 Read and Download Ebook The Zucchini Warriors... From Reader Review The Zucchini Warriors for online ebook Punk says YA. Macdonald Hall gets a football team and their quarterback's a girl. Literally. This book is pretty one- note. Usually Bruno and Boots have a goal (Save Macdonald Hall!) and then have to overcome a series of obstacles by way of hair-brained schemes (Collect Pop Cans! Get Someone To Go On A Date! Steal Computer Paper!) in order to achieve that goal. Here they play football. A lot. Plus Elmer's weirdly out of character (purposely, yes; realistically? no). But this book did one thing for me. I can finally tell the difference between Cathy and Diane. (Hint: Cathy's the one who's like Bruno.) Umair Sial says There are definitely good things about this novel. I really felt the determination from the whole gang to do anything they could to win and their devotion to the cause. It's also fun seeing them get into trouble with the Fish. The Cathy twist was nice but there was no real reason given as to why she was so good. I felt the story had different layers, the Manchurian Bush Hamsters, but it failed to keep me happy as to how the book was concluded and how it just dealt with them. It's a nice story however this isn't the best of the MacDonald Hall series. Sarah Thornton says I feel like this inspired the 'Slapshoys' series. Ash says I chose this book, because of the author, Gordan Korman, he's one of my favorite authors and I thought it would be interesting to read another book of his, because they are always funny and interesting. The Zucchini Warriors is about two boys named Bruno and Boots, and a couple of their friends, they all go to a school together called,"McDonald Hall." During their year there, they both experience many wacky problems and difficulties, such as a girl joining their football team, the Zucchini Warriors. My favorite quote from this book was when Elmer, the school nerd says,"They're Manchurian bush hamsters, sir,an endangered species. I'm attempting to make them reproduce." I like that quote, because it shows the silliness of the book itself, and how many wild things happen in that one year alone. Gordan Korman's writing style has always been one of my favorites, his writing style makes you feel like you're a hidden camera and you're experiencing everything that's happening to these unfortunate characters. I would recommend this book to anyone looking for a hilarious book to read, with many bizzare and absurd things that happen to Bruno and Boots, this book is for sure to get a laugh out of even the most stingiest of people. Kaylee says The first three books were funny, and fun to read. Book four was still funny, but the quality of the writing PDF File: The Zucchini Warriors... 3 Read and Download Ebook The Zucchini Warriors... had declined (some very flat characters, unrealistic motivations). Which brings us to the current book, number five: The first few chapters were really weak; the characters were being absurd *without* it being funny, which made it seem as if Korman was trying to keep us laughing after he's run out of ideas for jokes, and was just throwing random ideas at the page. In chapter 4 it finally picked up again - the kids' zany plans were funny again, instead of just being an exercise in "what's the most oddball thing I can think of today?" - and from that point, the rest of the book was about on par with book 4. So, not great, but still amusing enough to be entertaining. Two of my favorite parts: "I didn't mean to let those bush hamsters loose," said Sidney, who had felt horribly guilty ever since the incident. "It was an accident." "No one's blaming you, Sidney," said Larry soothingly. "Any damage you cause goes down as an act of nature, like an earthquake, or a tidal wave." and "As to the participation of Miss Burton," the Headmaster went on, "we will say nothing, as we all know Miss Burton. One neither coerces nor stops that young woman. She is a law unto herself." Hah! That's accurate. Somewhat off topic, I see Cathy someday taking over running Scrimmage's. I know Miss Scrimmage is getting on in years, and might want to retire eventually, and Cathy is probably the only person capable of managing a school full of hooligans. She already has tons of experience running that school... *grins* Maggie Gordon says I legitimately remember owning this particular MacDonald Hall book, and enjoying the whole girls can play football too, dumb society plotline. Good series for the younger crowd to sink their teeth into, and Canadian to boot! Katie Fitzgerald says Canadian children's author Gordon Korman has had a long career as the prolific writer of humorous, exciting, and easy-to-read novels geared toward grades 4 to 9. He started writing at age 12, when he wrote This Can't Be Happening at MacDonald Hall! for a seventh grade English class. Over the course of nearly 20 years after the publication of this first MacDonald Hall book, Korman published a total of 7 titles about the boarding school exploits of best friends Bruno and Boots.This month, I read them all: This Can't Be Happening at MacDonald Hall! (1977) Go Jump in the Pool! (1979) Beware the Fish! (1980) The War with Mr. Wizzle (1982) The Zucchini Warriors (1988) MacDonald Hall Goes Hollywood (1991) Something Fishy at Macdonald Hall (1995) PDF File: The Zucchini Warriors... 4 Read and Download Ebook The Zucchini Warriors... The series stars best friends and roommates Bruno Walton and Melvin "Boots" O'Neal, who are known pranksters on the MacDonald Hall campus. Though the two boys often butt heads with their headmaster, the long-suffering yet fair-minded Mr. Sturgeon, whom they call "The Fish," they also have a fond affection for their school. The boys and their classmates also have many associations with students at Miss Scrimmage's Finishing School for Young Ladies, which is located across the road from MacDonald Hall, and whose high- strung Headmistress frequently overreacts to late-night visits from MacDonald Hall students by wildly wielding a shotgun. Each book of the series focuses on a different major scheme involving Bruno and Boots. Sometimes, they seek to make a particular improvement to their school, such as a pool or a recreation center. Other times, they go to war with a particular teacher who is making their lives difficult, or with an outside force that threatens to close the school. In the final two books, they even befriend a Hollywood celebrity and uncover a phantom prankster. What I love about these books is their sense of humor. Last spring, I attended a talk by two children's illustrators who insisted that the key to humor in children's books is underwear and toilet jokes. I found this to be a disappointing underestimation of what kids are capable of finding funny, but I was also hard-pressed to think of many examples of funny books, especially funny books targeted at boys, that could make kids laugh without resorting to crude humor. Thankfully, I have been reminded that this series fits that bill exactly. Perhaps because Korman started writing these when he was himself an adolescent, he completely understands what middle school boys find funny, and he delivers it in every single book. Pranks, schemes, disasters, explosions, science experiments, sporting events - these are the backdrops for Korman's jokes, and most of the time, they are clever, respectful and well-executed. Even when the characters disobey their teachers, they often do so in the name of a noble cause that helps their school or their friends. Also refreshing is the complete lack of serious dating in these books. There are some storylines involving long-distance and unrequited crushes, but none of the preoccupation with having exclusive girlfriends and boyfriends that seems prevalent in more contemporary books. The girls of Miss Scrimmage's (particularly Cathy and Diane) are not presented as potential romantic partners for Bruno, Boots, and their friends, but as partners in crime, good friends, and pranksters in their own right. All the female characters are actually very well-done, including Mrs. Sturgeon, the headmaster's wife, whose affection for Bruno and Boots often keeps her husband from acting rashly in his punishment of them. Are the MacDonald Hall books great literature? Probably not. But neither are they to be completely dismissed as "fluff" or 'twaddle." For boys who like funny books, but whose parents would prefer not to promote toilet humor (or worse, crude jokes with a sexual basis), they are the perfect escapist read.