Get Lost

Katie Kazoo, Switcheroo #6

by Nancy E. Krulik

Katie's class is going on a two-day science field trip to Nature School. The Nature School counselor is named Genie-Genie the Meanie! Genie is very strict and doesn't want the kids to have any fun. She's ruining the field trip! When Katie turns into Genie and is left leading her class on a hike, she gets them totally lost! Back in her own body, how will Katie get things on track again?

Genres: Childrens, Fiction, Chapter Books, Middle Grade, Audiobook, Fantasy, School Stories

76 pages, Library Binding

First published March 1, 2003

About the author

Nancy Krulik is the author of more than 100 books for children and young adults, including three New York Times bestsellers. She is best known, however, for being the author and creator of the Katie Kazoo Switcheroo book series, which has brought her to the attention of second, third, and fourth graders nationwide.

Nancy has also written extensively for teens and is well known as a biographer of Hollywood's hottest young stars. Her knowledge of the details of celebrities lives has made her a desired guest on several entertainment shows on the E! network as well as on Extra and Access Hollywood. She can be seen there talking about the secret lives of such celebs as Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz, Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears, Hilary Duff, and Frankie Muniz. Nancy has also been a guest on radio broadcasts nationwide discussing the superstars she has researched over the years.

As the author of several teen and preteen advice books, including Grosset and Dunlap's Prom!: The Complete Guide to a Truly Spectacular Night, Nancy has been interviewed by several prominent magazines including Cosmo Girl, Teen, Teen People, Seventeen, and Teen Celebrity. She has also been the celebrity guest for three Teen People chat presentations. Nancy has recently begun to delve into the teen novel market, writing four romances for young adults, all of which will be published between 2004 and 2005.

Nancy currently lives in Manhattan with her husband, composer Daniel Burwasser, their two children, Amanda and Ian, and a crazed cockerspaniel named Pepper .

Reviews

[Anna Salvesen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Katie Kazoo and her friends were going camping. They went on a hike with the mean head counselor. Katie Kazoo turns into her when she goes to the restroom. Katie tries to act like her and they all make a search party for Katie because Katie went pee and never came back. They had to camp out looking for her. After the campout in the morning, Katie fell down a slippery mud slope into quicksand mud. When she went down the slope, she turned back into Katie and then it was the counselor that was stuck in the mud. So Katie reached down and helped the mean counselor and then they all tried to find their way back to the path and went home.

[Katie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Katie Kazoo and her 3rd grade class are headed to Science Camp for a few days! Katie is a bit nervous because she’s never been away from home before. Her teacher hates bugs, her friend Jeremy has summer camp experience and is super excited about all the fun they’ll have! George is not in his typical mood, and Suzanne overpacked! They get to camp and find the Head Counselor Genie is a tough one! Will they have fun anyway? What science will they learn? And when will the magic wind turn Katie into someone else?

A fun read for the 2nd-4th grade crowd! I love a good book set at camp!!

[Ms. B · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun story about Katie who through a magical wind is able to switch places with others. Sounds cool, right? The bad news is she cannot control her powers and does not know when the magic wind will overtake her.
In this story, Katie switches places with a drill sergeant mentality.
Magic + humor = Katie Kazoo, fans of Heidi Hecklebeck will like this one.

[Anthony · Rating 3 out of 5]

Katie Carew aka Katie Kazoo, and her third grade class attend a two day science camp. During the camp, the magic wind has Katie trade places with their camp councilor Genie Manzini whose bark is worse than her bite. The body exchange allows lessons to be learned in teamwork, and leadership.

[Tyler Replogle · Rating 4 out of 5]

My six year old like it because it was pretty cool and liked it at the end they played a silly sound. She liked that they went camping because going out side is fun.

[Viviane Elbee · Rating 5 out of 5]

Katie Kazoo is on a class camping field trip, and switches places with the camp director, who seems like a tough military leader. Of course, Katie is unfamiliar with the camp, so they all get lost.

[Alexis · Rating 3 out of 5]

Admittedly, I like the fact pages at the end of the books.

[Juan-Diego · Rating 5 out of 5]

This story is about a girl named Katie Kazoo. This book is about a girl who goes to science camp and meets a terrible bossy head counsel named Genie the meanie. She gives notebooks to all the kids and makes them write about everything they learned and walk around. Some activites that Genie makes the children do the class agree that some of them are fun theese include: making beeswax candles and feeding animals at the nature shack. Genie is very uncouth to the children because she shouts at them as if they were soldiers that were not following orders. One day when the class and the head counsel went for a hike she decided to split the class into groups afterwards the "magic wind" turned Katie into Genie but at the same time Katie gets lost. Then everything turns crazy. Genie falls into a mud slide then she drops and lands on a rock at the bottom then Katie returned to her regular body and looked as normal as possible. After that Genie sees Katie's comfort and decides to be nice to the class for the rest of the day. Finally everything turns back to normal and the sad part is that the class leaves camp. Katie misses every thing including the animal shack, but most of all she misses.... Genie and she never thought of Genie as a meanie any more. On the way back she feels a cool breeze on her and just in case it was the magic wind again tying to cause mischief Katie closed her window shut not to take any chanes of getting into a disaster and trying to fix it.

[Elle B. · Rating 3 out of 5]

For my goodreads review I read Get Lost from the KatieKazoo Collection. Get Lost is all about a group of kids that went on a school field trip to a educational overnight camp. All the children were dreading going to this stupid camp, and their head counselor, Genie, did not help the situation. Everyone hated the bugs, hated the food, hated the heat, and especially hated Genie.

One evening at the camp, everything sort of flipped. As they were headed to the campfire, they noticed that one of the campers were missing! Turns out Genie is a hot mess under pressure, and she just melted like a candle when she heard something was wrong. As they searched for Katie they had lead off the trail, and could not find there way back.

Katie suddenly showed up out of the bushes. As everyone was hugging Katie, and celebrating her return George noticed something. There was a trail of caramels that he had in his pocket leading right back to camp!

They all made made it back safely, and everyone realized that genie was not so bad at all. This book taught me that you should not judge a person before you really get to know them.

[Abbie · Rating 5 out of 5]

In this book, it was bad because Katie had to go to the bathroom and so she went behind a tree and the magic wind came and turned her into Genie the Meanie, the camp instructor. So they were on a camp and Katie didn't know which path to take and she led them the wrong way because there were red ribbons leading the way. And then when she turned back into Katie, they couldn't find their way back for a long time and they had to sleep at camp because they couldn't find the path. The next morning, they were starving and George said he had some candies he had brought with him and at first, Genie looked mad, but then she smiled. He reached in his pocket and then he looked sad because he had a hole in his pocket. The candies had fallen out, but Katie saw a shiny thing and it was a candy and they ate their way back to the campground. What an interesting adventure.

[Tiff · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a cute series where Katie would switch bodies with someone when a gust of magical wind surprises her. This book made me feel brave and curious. In this story, they go to science camp and Katie switches places with Genie Manzini, the head counselor. They get lost in the woods and after they switch back, Katie becomes braver and wiser, helping the group find their way back. Krulik’s writing is both simple yet interesting, keeping the reader engaged. Wendy’s illustrations are playful and gorgeous, brilliant accompaniment to Krulik’s storyline. I would recommend this book to beginning readers, both boys and girls!

[vampire (dipita) grul]

always stay together

[Caren · Rating 3 out of 5]

The wind comes and changes Katie into the mean Science Camp counselor.

Good choice for girls 1-3.

[Sydney · Rating 4 out of 5]

when katie goes to camp she changes into her mean couselor. she doesn't know where to go so they get lost.

[Helen · Rating 5 out of 5]

nice book so far.