eggsinonebasket

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Eggs in One Basket

Kathy Mackel

Mackel, Kathy. Eggs in One Basket HarperCollins Publishers. New York, NY. 2000.

Eggs in One Basket, by Kathy Mackel, is a fictional book about a

secret agent that is sent out on a quest to search for a valuable

item, but something extreme occurs. Eggs in One Basket is not

recommended for younger readers, because the dialogue may be hard to

follow. This book is recommended for more experienced and older

readers.

Eggs In One Basket is a mysterious and adventurous story about a

clumsy secret agent named Agent Joe. He is given a quest to go out and

find a package, but all Agent Joe knows is he must go to California

and search for the package, where he encounters a rabid dog,not just

any rabid dog, but the most rabid dog of all time. Conveniently, the

dog is guarding the super secret package that this super secret agent

needs so he can keep his super secret job.

Later after desperately bribing the dog with his supply of food for

the package, Agent Joe later realises that the package he desperately

fought for was not the right one! The package he found meant nothing

to him whatsoever. After failing his quest, Agent Joe returns back to

Nevada were all the other agents are deeply disappointed in his work,

so they send him back to California, were he disguises as a hobo (so

he isn’t suspicious) and searches for the package hoping to find what

he is looking for.

Finally after many long hours of searching for the package, Agent Joe

finally finds the package. Inside the package is a bag of multicolored

eggs, not Easter eggs, but natural colored eggs. Agent Joe immediately

brings the package back to the other agents. The agents are so

confused and impressed with what Agent Joe has found they don't know

what to do with it, so they wait, and wait, until the eggs hatch. And

that, was a terrible mistake. After the eggs hatch, the agents are

curious if this is a new species, so they bring the eggs to a group of

scientists. Were the scientists find some evidence about the eggs that

is shocking!

Eggs In One Basket is a mysterious and interesting children's book.

The book’s dialog was very confusing and messy; Trying to follow the

writing was very difficult. Also, the book’s grammar didn’t make much

sense; new readers should not read this book. All in all, Eggs in One

Basket was funny and the script was creative.

1 out of 5 stars

Contributed by A. Valentine

October 26th, 2011