Smith, R. (2013). Chupacabra.
New York, NY: Scholastic.
Marty and Luther have lost their
friend Grace who was kidnapped by her grandfather. They decide to take it on themselves to go
into her grandfather, Noah’s, zoo and find her.
They add to their adventure a new friend named Dylan. The boys go into the zoo separately, however
Luther gets taken as well. It is now up
to Dylan and Marty to rescue him too.
They end up far underground in a secret lab/ bunker. As they learn more they discover Noah has
been creating new creatures, a Chupacabra, and he has sent it after Luther to
kill him and Marty’s next.
This book is the third in Smith’s
series about these kids who are involved with scientists, cryptozoologist, and
cryptids. They discover giant squids,
dinosaurs and other creatures thought to be extinct. This science fiction book was slow to start
and did not hold my attention very well.
I don’t know if it was because it was the third book in the series and I
was not attached to the characters from reading the first books (which I
haven’t) or not. It does seem like it
could be read without the first two, Cryptid
Hunters and Tentacles, because
Smith gives enough information that I knew what happened in Tentacles to help me know what was going
on in this book. I also have the book on
my classroom shelf and never see any students read it all the way through. I think this book is fine for middle school. I don’t think high school would be into
it.
Other books in the series:
Cryptid
Hunters
Tentacles
Mutation
Other books by Smith:
Sasquatch
Storm
Runners
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