Product Description

When Andrew’s latest invention, the Atom Sucker, goes haywire, Andrew and Judy are shrunk down to microscopic level! Andrew and Judy find themselves lost on their neighbor’s dog, where they encounter everything from colossal fleas to crab-like eyelash mites. Now they have to find their way back to the Atom Sucker and get unshrunk before it’s too late!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #101003 in Books
• Published on: 2002-05-28
• Released on: 2002-05-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 96 pages

From the Inside Flap
When Andrew?s latest invention, the Atom Sucker, goes haywire, Andrew and Judy are shrunk down to microscopic level! Andrew and Judy find themselves lost on their neighbor?s dog, where they encounter everything from colossal fleas to crab-like eyelash mites. Now they have to find their way back to the Atom Sucker and get unshrunk before it?s too late!

About the Author
J. C. Greenberg is the author of many books for young people in the library and reference field. She's a frequent visitor to schools and pays close attention to kid feedback. She's married to Dan Greenberg, author of The Zack Files, and lives in New York.

Customer Reviews

A great series
This book, as well as the others in the "Andrew Lost" series, is wonderful! I stumbled across it as a gift for my nephew, but decided to read it to my 6 & 8 year old sons. They loved it, and we have read the whole series. Andrew's adventures kept the boys interested and there was a whole lot of learning too. Because Andrew is shrunk to a level we don't normally see, we get an "up close" look at things thru his adventures. There is lots of science, like what the color of a bubble means and how an insect sees with its many eyes (and so much more!). The books are sufficiently "gross" to interest boys, but not so gross that I couldn't read them. In fact, I learned at least as much as they did. Really interesting stuff! The chapters are short and easy to read. We finished each book in 2-3 sittings. I highly recommend these books.

7 year old LOVED it
My son just adores this series. He reads a whole book in one day. After plowing through the Magic Tree House books, we searched and searched for another series to sustain him. He likes realism mixed in with fantasy. This series seems to be science mixed with fantasy, whereas Magic Tree House series is history mixed with fantasy. Not written for the adult reader, kids 7 and up will enjoy them!

Liked it overall
This was a hard book to rate.

So first, the bad: The story line was not my favorite and, as an adult reader, there are just way too many exclamation points for me to read. No one's that excited!!! Also much of the dialogue drove me nuts...why a robot who knows everything talks like a caveman is beyond me. And, frankly, cute phrases that sound like grown-ups trying to write like kids give me that "put this book down!" feeling. The events are unconvincing and, in places, confusing.

However (the good): The pictures and science tidbits are very cool and I was a sucker for the cliffhanger ending. That was a fun way to end a first volume, but I'm not sure how fun it would be for volume 10.

I suspect my boy will like it when he's a bit older and I won't mind handing it to him to read.