Product Description

Attack of the giant...goldfish?

Warren Otis wants to be a horror movie director, so he spends a lot of time making upt monster movies in his head. He's really beginning to enjoy his latest creation -- starring Bubbles, an innocent goldfish flushed down the toilet into the sewers, where she turns into an enormous, flesh-eating creature with a special craving for human beings. Then reality intrudes. Warren sees his sister crying in a phone booth and suspects that she's talking to their mother, a political activist on the run from the FBI. And even though Warren hasn't seen his mother for three years, he's convinced that she'll come back someday and make everything okay. Could Warren possibly be right? Or is his greatest wish just a daydream -- like his movies?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #980188 in Books
• Published on: 2000-05-31
• Released on: 2000-05-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Review
"The story outstrips [Byars's] finest achievements." -- -- Publishers Weekly

About the Author
Betsy Byars is a widely read and loved author of many award-winning middle-grade books for children, including Summer Of The Swans (Viking), a 1971 Newbery Medal winner. The Pinballs was an ALA Notable Children's Book in 1977 as well as the basis for an ABC Afterschool Special. Other books she has written for HarperCollins are Good-bye, Chicken Little; The Seven Treasure Hunts, illustrated by Jennifer Barrett; and three I Can Read Books, the popular The Golly Sisters Go West, Hooray For The Golly Sisters!, and The Golly Sisters Ride Again, all illustrated by Sue Truesdell. Ms. Byars lives in Clemson, South Carolina, with her husband.

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.