The Tanglewood Terror
Written by Kurtis Scaletta
Narrated by Everette Plen
4.5/5
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When 13-year-old Eric Parrish comes across glowing mushrooms in the woods behind his house, he's sure there's a scientific explanation. But when they start encroaching on the town-covering the football field and popping up from beneath the floorboards-Eric knows something's seriously wrong. Not that much else is going right: his parents are fighting, his little brother Brian is a little pill, and he's had a falling-out with his football team-over a pig.
Then a runaway girl from a nearby boarding school warns Eric that the fungus could portend the town's doom and leave it in rubble-just like the village that inexplicably disappeared in the exact same spot over 200 years ago. Eric, Brian, and Mandy set out to solve a very old mystery and save the town of Tanglewood.
Kurtis Scaletta
Kurtis Scaletta is the author of eleven books for young readers. Many of them are about baseball, but he has also written about snakes, robots, and giant fungi. He grew up in the five states and three foreign countries, but now stays put in Minnesota with his wife, son, and housecats.
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Reviews for The Tanglewood Terror
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5First: very easy comparison to Jerry Spinelli's Crash, in re: a bully who doesn't entirely realize he's a bully, or what consequences his actions have on his usual target.
Second: strong science fiction that isn't (exactly) speculative--this is grounded in actual science. Or at least it seems like it is, anyway; I'm no mycologist myself.
Third: there's so much going on here that could overshadow parts of the plot, but it all works in perfect balance: Eric's parents are headed for divorce and it's obvious right from the beginning, but there's no hand-wringing will-they-won't-they. When they finally admit that they're calling it quits, Eric's reaction is more of relief than surprise. There's the missing girl, whose whole story we never get--and while I'm curious about it, this isn't her story. There's Eric himself, the tough-guy football player who's actually quite squeamish and easily rattled.
And there's a mushroom plague overtaking the whole town.
I'll be working up a booktalk for this one for the spring or fall, depending when I'm next yabbering at sixth-graders.