Who is the mysterious Hamish X? He looks like an ordinary 10-year-old boy except he wears big black boots he can’t take off and no orphan facility can hold him. Agents Candy and Sweet of the Orphan Disposal Agency don’t seem to know what to do with him, or do they have a master plan? They sell him to the dreadful Windcity Orphanage and Cheese Factory where a small army of orphans slave to make award-winning stinky blue cheese. Hamish’s plan of escape—with his new friends, the tough, courageous Mimi, 12, and the brilliant, inventive Parveen, 8,—is well underway when the dreaded Captain Cheesebeard and his marauding band of cutthroats attack the factory. They kidnap the orphan slaves and take them away to face an unknown but undoubtedly worse fate far across the Arctic on Snow Monkey Island. Now of course the three friends have to try to free them. As Hamish says, “Anything else would make for a very dull story.” This story is far from dull. It’s exciting, fast-paced and very, very funny.Saturday, January 24, 2009
Hamish X and the Cheese Pirates by Sean Cullen
Who is the mysterious Hamish X? He looks like an ordinary 10-year-old boy except he wears big black boots he can’t take off and no orphan facility can hold him. Agents Candy and Sweet of the Orphan Disposal Agency don’t seem to know what to do with him, or do they have a master plan? They sell him to the dreadful Windcity Orphanage and Cheese Factory where a small army of orphans slave to make award-winning stinky blue cheese. Hamish’s plan of escape—with his new friends, the tough, courageous Mimi, 12, and the brilliant, inventive Parveen, 8,—is well underway when the dreaded Captain Cheesebeard and his marauding band of cutthroats attack the factory. They kidnap the orphan slaves and take them away to face an unknown but undoubtedly worse fate far across the Arctic on Snow Monkey Island. Now of course the three friends have to try to free them. As Hamish says, “Anything else would make for a very dull story.” This story is far from dull. It’s exciting, fast-paced and very, very funny.
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I've read this book and the two other books that come after it, Hamish X and the Hollow Mountain, and Hamish X Goes to Providence, Rhode Island. The series were soooo good, I couldn't put the books down! I think our library should get the two others that come after Hamish X and the Cheese Pirates!
ReplyDeleteHamish X was a very good book. I really liked the foot notes, they sometimes sass you like saying " told ya so!" and it has better ones that explain what the word means and why they used it. It also has little chapters on the author.
ReplyDeleteOooo... I like books that sass you! Clever... thanks for the great "teaser"... can't wait to read it!
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