Chicken Trek

by Stephen Manes

Book Overview

Oscar Noodleman spends his summer vacation working off the debt he owes his uncle by entering the Chicken in the Bag contest and eating at every one of 211 restaurants across America.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553157167
• ISBN13: 9780553157161
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Skylark Books
• Weight: 0.04 lbs.
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

This Is ne Of The Best Books I Have Ever Read

This book is funny and interesting. I would recommend this book to anyone who loves a wacky story. This book is about a boy who broke his crazy inventor cousin?s 4,000 something dollar camera. He ends up entering a chicken-eating contest to try to win the grand prize. The grand prize will help him pay off the money he owes his cousin. This book will have you laughing the whole way through. If you happen to see this book in a library you should really pick it up and read it!

Great

This book is just great. You have to read it. Very interesting and fun.

Mr. Garden would like to inform you about this book

Hi, this is Mr. Garden. I would like to say that this is the best book ever for young adults. It was very good and it is the best humorous book since Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn." I have read this book almost 14 times and I think this book is better than the well-known kids book Harry Potter. Don't buy this book in paperback. It deserves hard cover. --Mr. Garden

The Picklemobile was really awesome!! -C.J.-

I thought this book was totally awesome!! I mean, far out, dude!! The 'Picklemobile' was totally radical!! I mean, get this, an enormous, green, warty pickle you can drive and use to get absolutely anywhere you want almost immediately!! I would also like to recommend the other books in the Oscar Noodleman series, "It's New, It's Improved, It's Terrible!!" or something along those terms, and one I don't remember the name to but is about Oscar Noodleman and his friend getting on worldwide T.V. with an alien scam. Don't forget "Be a Perfect Person In Just Three Days" and "Make $4,000,000.00 By Next Thurseday." READ THESE BOOKS!!!! I know you'll enjoy them. As my Grandma Audrey, the Court Commisioner tells me when she is trying to be persuasive, "Trust me, I'm from the government. I'm here to help you."

A Timeless Classic

Even today, when someone accuses me of never reading a book in my life, I can recall sitting down and reading this touching tale of a boy in a Pickle-Car, chasing his dream of winning the great chicken eating contest. Buy it for yourself, or maybe your children. Better than War and Peace, and not so damn long.