There’s more going on than Joey Pignattano’s big upcoming event: to eat a worm for a dollar .
The second grade teacher is a sweetheart will she finally win the pumpkin pie baking contest this year? Then there’s the really scary story floating around about the real mummy that comes every Halloween it can’t be true, can it? But then . . . the mummy gasp! shows up at school for Halloween! Cool fun for younger readers and not really scary .
It all started with a bet. Joey Pignattano, Jigsaw’s friend, is going to eat a worm on Halloween for a dollar. Everyone except Bigs Maloney thinks it’s a gross, and I mean gross, idea. Finally, Joey’s big day comes. Jigsaw brings some worms for Joey, but just before the school’s annual pie contest, the worms disappear! This looks like a job for Jigsaw Jones and Mila Yeh. This book was a little bit duller than “The Case of the Spooky Sleepover”, another Jigsaw Jones book. Good luck on new books James Preller.
My six year old loves these books. And for his parents? We couldn’t be happier to find a series of well written mysteries for kids. Preller’s situations and characters are fun and up to date. We’re in the middle of reading them all and have liked each one enormously. One caveat: this particular book had me reading a few sections with my stomach in my throat. Of course my kids thought that Joey Pignattano eating a worm was nothing more than great fun. I guess you just have to be under 20 to understand!