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The New Switcheroo (Rube Goldberg and His Amazing Machines #2)

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The hilarious follow-up to Rube Goldberg and His Amazing Machines by bestselling author Brandon T. Snider and featuring illustrations by award-winning artist Ed Steckley
After unintentionally unmasking a criminal mastermind at his schoolâs Contraption Convention, Rube Goldbergâand his inventionsâare the talk of the sixth grade. Rubeâs star is on the rise, and itâs a lot of pressure. What if heâs lost his mojo? Thereâs no time to wonder, because Rube and his two best friends, Boob and Pearl, are busy planning Pearlâs campaign for class president. With the Switcheroo Dance a weekend before the big election, Pearlâs path to victory is set. That is, until a new mystery strikes the town. Rube is eager to bring Zach into the fold, but Boob and Pearl canât help but wonder if Rubeâs mysterious new friend is hiding something . . . will Rube get his mojo back in time to unravel the mystery and save Pearlâs campaign?
Hijinks and hilarity abound in this dynamic follow-up to Rube Goldberg and His Amazing Machines, written by bestselling author Brandon T. Snider and featuring black-and-white illustrations by Ed Steckley.
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    • Kirkus

      September 1, 2022
      Rube navigates middle school mayhem during the sixth grade election and Switcheroo Dance. Rube Goldberg is back in this second book in the series inspired by the famous cartoonist. It's election season at Beechwood Middle, and Rube's friend Pearl Williams is running for class president. Even though he has good intentions, things get messy when Rube agrees to go to the dance with Pearl's opponent, Emilia Harris, and accidentally botches the irrigation device for Pearl's school garden project and her automated campaign flyer distributor. Snider introduces a trans girl named Reina Lopez and has Rube grapple with deep-rooted issues of racism (Pearl is Black), sundown towns, and antisemitism (Rube is Jewish). Another character comes out to a friend as gay. These frank conversations about oft-ignored parts of life and history are refreshing, though they sometimes read as heavy-handed, forced inclusion rather than naturally integrated character development. There isn't much to the plot, as it mostly centers around the election, and the epilogue makes a grab at trying to tie in a mystery from the first book that is shallowly included throughout the second. Steckley's black-and-white illustrations are at their best when showing detailed, sinister faces or busy details, as in the antiques store The Treasury, where Rube and his mom liked to browse. A thin plotline that is only slightly redeemed by likable characters. (Fiction. 8-12)

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