Leon and the Champion Chip

Ingredients: A trashy beginning, Leon Zeisel, a bully, a purple nurple, a wet Willie, 2 Howlitzers, 3 best friends, a Lumpkin Dunkin', 5 half-baked schemes, 2 Wedgies (1 Turbo; 1 Atomic), a hotel full of animals, a jug of Poop-B-Gone, a bald science teacher, 36 types of potato chips, 12 potato chip experiments, a potato chip museum, 1 human hot fudge sundae, an explosive ending.

Publishers Weekly

The star of Leon and the Spitting Image returns for Leon and the Champion Chip by Allen Kurzweil, illus. by Bret Bertholf. Coming off of a summer that rated "an 8," Leon starts fifth-grade with the perfect invention to pay back bully Henry Lumpkin Jr.-except that it backfires and the hero winds up in a trash can. Will his year improve? Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Allen Kurzweil is the prize-winning author of two novels for adults—A Case of Curiosities and The Grand Complication—and two works of fiction for children—Leon and the Spitting Image and Leon and the Champion Chip. A recipient of numerous grants and awards, including fellowships from the Guggenheim and Fulbright Foundations and the New York Public Library Center for Scholars and Writers, Kurzweil is currently a fellow at the John Nicholas Brown Center for the Study of American Civilization at Brown University. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island, with his wife and son.