Boltzmon!

by William Sleator

With a devious older sister who wishes he hadn't been born, eleven-year-old Chris needs some heavenly intervention. But when that help arrives in the form of a boltzmon--the all-knowing,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525461310
• ISBN13: 9780525461319
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Dutton Children's Books
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 10 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 9

Customer Reviews

must read

In my Language Arts class we had to do a book report. I read The book Boltzmon. In the book I found out that Boltzmon was the last name of this boy's friend. I like this book because the brother and sister fight at the beginnig but at the end they don't. I recommend this book for other readers becouse I like this author and he is good at writing books. I think this is a nice book.

Boltzmon!

Eleven year old Chris is a normal and very creative 6th Grade boy. He lives in the deep of a large city, and he often dreams of unknown countries with vast rich grasslands and clean flowing rivers. He is so creative that he decides to design and map a computer version of his own country. This fantasyland he names Arteria. His life was once full of happiness and fun, that is, until his snobby older sister starts getting all the attention. Chris's 8th grade sister, Lulu has everything going for her, she's a popular blonde cheerleader and also a big student council member. She gets all his parents attention and even his former friends. Suddenly, he is nothing. Chris supposes she would be an okay sister except for another thing, like most siblings she's mean to Chris. Not just mean, but sneer, snobby, unfair and she seems like she just wants to make her younger brother miserable. Chris always tries as hard as he can to ignore Lulu's attempts to madden him or make him jealous, yet he just can't help but hate her. He knows that deep down inside, Chris holds that brotherly love for Lulu, but she is definitely not helping the hateful feelings between the two. One lonely night, while Lulu is holding one of her loud cheerleader parties, Chris encounters something that will from then on, change his life forever. Something strange, yet amazingly cool. This is the Boltzmon, the sacred remnant of a black hole who can change its form or shape whenever it wants and knows all, even the future. The Boltzmon is easily perturbed and when it becomes angry enough it often flips it self into a different world. The Boltzmon drags Chris through space an time and into new worlds and strange countries, including the messed up land of Arteria. Sure enough, when Chris maddens the Boltzmon with his slow thinking, it flips out and everything turns black, when things appear again, the two are in another world, although one thing is different, a tall woman who greatly resembles Lulu is with them. It is not truly Lulu, but possibly a future version of her. You will have to find out! A creative, smart young hero, a snobby, villainous older sister and a subatomic particle with a weird sense of humor and too much power to deal with. Together, the trio, along with many more interesting characters, make this short book an exciting, funny and somewhat frightening novel. I think this was a great, enthusiastic story with quite a sense of high-tech fantasy. Definitely a top Sleator book, and a must reader for any easy book readers and fiction lovers.