The Lunchroom of Doom

The Werewolf Club #2

by Daniel Pinkwater, Jill Pinkwater (Illustrator)

Where is one place you don't want to go alone?

Remember Werewolf Club members Ralf Alfa, Billy Furball, Lucy Fang, and Norman Gnormal? Well, they are back.

Now they wreak havoc on a local restaurant they call "The Lunchroom of Doom." Tomato catsup squirts. Paper straws fly. Laughts and weird things abund. Don't miss this gripping story of the supernatural.

Genres: Childrens

64 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2000

About the author

Daniel Manus Pinkwater is an author of mostly children's books and is an occasional commentator on National Public Radio. He attended Bard College. Well-known books include Lizard Music, The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death, Fat Men from Space, Borgel, and the picture book The Big Orange Splot. Pinkwater has also illustrated many of his books in the past, although for more recent works that task has passed to his wife Jill Pinkwater.

Reviews

[elstaffe · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pull quote/note
"'Compared with some of the regular customers, Billy Furball is like the Prince of Wales.'
'Hey!' Billy Furball shouted. 'Am not!'
'I just meant you were like some elegant person, that's all,' Lucy Fang said.
'I hate those royals,' Billy Furball said.
Billy Furball is an antimonarchist." (14-15)

"'I went to the office of Dr. Cookie Mendoza, Board of Education Psychiatrist,' Billy Furball said. 'And I found that she had become an enormous meatball. I asked her what this meant, and she told me she was part of a vast plan to invade our planet.
She said that humans (and werewolves) would soon be no more-replaced with other worldly meatballs.'
'What did you say to that?' we asked Billy
Furball.
'There was nothing to say,' Billy Furball said.
'What could I say? I ate her.'
'You ate your psychiatrist?' We were astounded. 'That doesn't sound like something a normal person could do.'" (52)

[Geovanna Maya · Rating 4 out of 5]

(3.5)
La historia es demasiado corta y se lee en un rato.
Me encantaron las ilustraciones y a pesar de tener un poco más de 50 páginas, me he divertido con la historia de cuatro amigos que aseguran ser niños lobo.
Sin duda me leería si tengo oportunidad los otros libros de esta serie, pues aunque al inicio estaba confundida con lo que leía... valió la pena conocer las extrañas aventuras de los amigos vivían.

[Krissy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute book, not very complex. But fine. Not great, not terrible. I got a few hearty chuckles reading it.

[Jamal Scott · Rating 4 out of 5]

The cover of the book is similar to the rest of the series of this book. The pictures throughout the book are in black and white. It looks like the pictures were done with pencil. The description of the author and illustrator are at the end of the book.

A member of the werewolf club was banned from the school lunchroom. The reason why is because he had a food fight with himself. The board of education psychiatrist Dr. Cookie Mendoza, said no one in the club was werewolves because they don't exist. There ends up being a boycott in the lunchroom.

[Linds · Rating 5 out of 5]

This wasn't quite as strong as the first in the series, but I'm sticking with my five star rating. I was swayed by the ending (did you notice she was a meatball? oh yeah). Plus the inclusion of the chapter with the "note from the editor" about the things that were too ghastly and horrible for the eyes and minds of children, so the chapter was eliminated and they offer instead the nice picture of bunnies. These are all so delightfully absurd. I'm diggin this series, despite being much older than the suggested reading ages of 7-10.

[Scott · Rating 4 out of 5]

I think I'm going to rate Pinkwater books different since it seems like my enjoyment is directly proportional to how much I want to eat at the places in his books.

This is a 4 star book because I'm really in the mood to eat at Honest Tom's Tibetan-American Lunchroom...I'll start with a Sauerkraut and Peanut Butter Sandwich followed by the Borscht w/ Toast and for desert some Tapioca Surprise (with the butter scotch candy hidden inside by Carla Lola Carolina)

[B · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very quirky book, (2nd in the series), about a club of Werewolves that meet because, well, they're a little different than other kids. Their faculty advisor is also a werewolf. Punny type of jokes about wolves, dogs, etc.
I think most boys, on an easy reading level, would like.

[Travis · Rating 3 out of 5]

More geeky monsters, weird food and quirky humor from Mr. Pinkwater.

[Gaston CM · Rating 5 out of 5]

Una serie de libros maravillosa, hace casi 20 años que lo lei y todavia no pierde su magia.