a.
Daniel Boom is a young
boy who suffers from a loud voice. Daniel has to practice using a lower volume
otherwise he shatters glass all around him. As they are going through their
semi-normal lives, his mother gets a promotion that requires them to move to
Stillville. The kids are not happy about it and get even more riled up when
they get a weird warning from Uncle Stanley. His parents don’t believe Stanley
and uproot the family to Stillville. The new town seems a bit odd and Daniel
doesn’t seem to fit in and is assigned detention on his birthday on Saturday.
The night before he tosses and turns while hearing voices. His little sister
wakes up too and claims to hear them as well. The find the source of the voices
in the basement of the house. Even though they alert their parents, they are
quickly dismissed ad Daniel is sent to detention. While at detention, he meets
other kids who seem to get in a lot of trouble. Together, they realize they
have a lot in common and put pieces together and realize they need to warn
their families. After several twists and turns, the kids are kidnapped by the
evil Mastermind Old Fogey and have to find a way to escape him. His goal is to
make the entire world silent and he manages to make that happen. As with all
superkid stories, they manage to get away from him and he is captured by the
police. Unfortunately, his evil friends still plan on making their plans a
reality.
b.
Steinberg, D. J.
(2008). The adventures of Daniel boom aka
loud boy. New York: Penguin Group.
c. I didn’t expect to like this book because I looked down on
graphic novels as not real reading. I was wrong. This story is not just pictures
with some thought bubbles. The story line is your typical kids vs. bad guys
theme with the kid prevailing over all. The illustrations provide clues to the
reader that evil henchmen are lurking about throughout the story. The ending
entices the reader to pick up the next novel in the series. Overall, I was
happy with what I read in this book. I would recommend it to students who enjoy
graphic novels.
d. SOUND
OFF!: The Adventures of daniel boom aka loud boy, Book 1. (2008). Kirkus
Reviews, 76(1), 49.
In this nearly all-dialogue series-opener, a
quintet of young superheroes with unusually kidlike powers squares off against
a noise-hating mad scientist. Despite continual efforts to keep it down, Daniel is cursed with such loud pipes that no
window or water glass is safe in his presence. This earns him a quick detention
in his new school, where he meets three fellow fifth-graders with their own
exaggerated abilities to annoy: Rex Rodriguez instantly breaks anything he
touches; Violet Fitz can produce world-class tantrums; and Sid Down raises
hyperactivity to high art. As it turns out, all four were test subjects as
newborns, exposed to a defective "Behavio-Ray" that was supposed to
make them permanently docile but had the opposite effect. Now the ray's
developer, Otis "Old Fogey" Fogelman, is back with an improved
product, and plans to try it out on the entire planet--starting with his first
batch of failures. Joined by Daniel's
babbling little sister Jeannie S. (who lives up to her name), the young folk do
brisk battle in brightly colored, easy-to-"read" cartoon frames, win
a victory and by the end have not only cool new names like "Tantrum
Girl" and "Destructo Kid," but even a clubhouse. Stay tuned for
further world-saving. (Graphic fiction. 8-10)
e. I would try to create a mini-graphic novel with students. I
could divide the class into groups and give each group a stack of plain white
note cards. They could create a story set in the library and glue their cards
in the correct sequence on a poster board. I could display their mini-stories in
the library along with a display of available graphic novels.
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