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Summary
Summary
Nolan Byrd single-handedly saved his school from the bullydom of Alvin "Bubba" Bixby. He posted proof of Bubba's exploits on the Web at Shredderman.com. Now Shredderman is the school hero! But since Shredderman's identity is a secret, everyone still treats Nolan like . . . a nerd.
But inside this nerd beats a superhero's heart--one dedicated to truth and justice. So when a vandal spray-paints graffiti around town--and even on his teacher's van!--Nolan decides that tracking down the tagger is a job for Shredderman.
But while he's trying to trap the tagger, the tagger is trying to pin the blame on Shredderman! Can Nolan turn the tables back around before his secret identity is revealed?
Author Notes
Wendelin Van Draanen was born on January 6, 1965 in Chicago, Illinois. She is the daughter of chemists who emigrated from Holland. She worked as a math teacher and then as a computer science teacher before becoming an author. Wendelin Van Draanen began her writing career with a screenplay and soon switched to adult novels and then children's books. She is best known for her Sammy Keyes series of novels, which she started writing in 1997, featuring a teenage detective named Samantha Keyes. Her popular Sammy Keyes series had been nominated four times for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Children's Mystery and won with "Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief". Her Shredderman series also yielded a Christopher Medal for Secret Identity. She has also written several novels such as: How I Survived Being a Girl and Flipped.
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Reviews (5)
Publisher's Weekly Review
Shredderman: Attack of the Tagger by Wendelin Van Draanen, illus. by Brian Biggs, continues the adventures of Nolan Byrd (aka Shredderman) begun with Secret Identity, which PW called " `Revenge of the Nerds' for the elementary crowd." When someone vandalizes Nolan's favorite teacher's van, it's up to Shredderman and his digital camera to unmask the villain. (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Horn Book Review
Dweeby fifth-grader Nolan Byrd begins an investigation to discover who is spray-painting graffiti on teachers' cars in the school parking lot. In this fast-paced, funny story about kid power, Nolan--a.k.a. Shredderman--employs a disguise, a video camera, and his anonymous website to expose the culprit. Suitably arch black-and-white illustrations appear throughout this welcome follow-up to Secret Identity. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.
Booklist Review
Gr. 3-5. Armed with a digital camera and ever-increasing confidence, Nolan, the nerdy fifth-grader who moonlights as a cyber-superhero ( Shredderman BKL F 15 04), is back. This time a graffiti artist has struck in Cedar Valley, spraying buildings, playground equipment, and even the van of Nolan's teacher- cum-sidekick, Mr. Green. In his quest to nab the delinquent, Shredderman becomes a suspect, and clearing his name requires hiding in a smelly trash bag, riding his bike farther than ever before, and, of course, posting muckraking photos and articles on shredderman.com . The hullabaloo stirred up by relatively tame vandalism seems a bit unconvincing, and it's disappointing to see Nolan gaining more adult accomplices at book's end rather than allowing his alter ego's successes to carry over into his relationships with his peers. Not as stellar as Shredderman's first soaring leap into cyberspace, but still balm for all those dweeby kids who will see themselves in Nolan and cheer him on, as well as any middle-grader wanting something fast, funny, and technologically up-to-the-minute. --Ray Olson Copyright 2004 Booklist
School Library Journal Review
Gr 2-4--Fifth grader Nolan Byrd, otherwise known as the cyber-superhero Shredderman, is at it again. In Wendelin Van Draanen's sequel (Knopf, 2006) to Secret Identity (Knopf, 2004), someone is spray painting the town with "dumb baby" faces and Nolan is determined to unmask the culprit. Armed with a digital camera, his bike, and his smarts, Shredderman comes up with a plan to end the Tagger's tricks. Eleven-year-old Daniel Young does an excellent job of bringing Nolan and all of his quirks to life, and provides a unique voice for each character. Listeners will be cheering for more truth, justice, and Shredderman!--Deanna Romriell, Salt Lake City Public Library, UT (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.
Kirkus Review
Self-styled "cyber-superhero" Nolan Byrd once again wields digital camera and Web site in defense of truth, justice, and just deserts for bullies. Someone's painting silly faces all over town, and Nolan, thanks to some sharp observation and a conveniently overheard conversation, suspects that Bubba Bixby, the previous episode's bully-de-jour, knows who. So how to unmask the vandal, without revealing his own secret "Shredderman" identity? Like a younger Sammy Keyes, Nolan springs into action, "blasting" through doorways, "zooming" down streets, and working on a complicated plan to post a video of the baddie in action--all while springing through several running subplots, both at home and at school. Equipped with a genuinely juvenile sense of humor (but a clear sense of right and wrong, too), plus a serious addiction to exclamation points, this engagingly bright, complex fifth-grade sleuth will sweep readers into his newest jet-propelled adventure. (Illustrations not seen) (Fiction. 8-11) Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Excerpts
Excerpts
Attack of the Tagger CHAPTER I Shreddin' Sidekick My name's Nolan Byrd, but I have another name, too. A secret name. Shredderman! Everyone at school has been to shredderman.com , but no one knows that Shredderman is me. And maybe a lot of kids at school call me Nerd, but Shredderman they call cool. Okay, not everyone thinks Shredderman is cool. Alvin "Bubba" Bixby hates Shredderman. Bubba's the reason I built the Shredderman Web site. He's a big bully with killer breath and rocky knuckles. Bubba used to flip over lunch trays. Steal stuff! Pound money out of little kids! And since Bubba's sly--and a really good liar--no one could ever prove anything. Enter Shredderman! I converted my backpack into a spy-pack. I hid my digital camera inside it! And I started catching Bubba in the act--on camera! Which is how Bubba's Big Butt--and a lot of his other dirty deeds--got posted on the Web for the whole world to see. Serves him right for underestimating underdogs! And it sure got teachers--and even Dr. Voss, our principal--to watch Bubba's every move. Cedar Valley Elementary is a much safer place since Shredderman came to town! There is one person who knows that I'm Shredderman. My sidekick. My sidekick isn't younger than me. Or smaller than me. Or weaker than me. Actually, he's got a lot more power than I do. He's my . . . shhhh . . . teacher! Everyone calls Mr. Green a hippie because he has long hair and drives an old Volkswagen van with dolphins painted all over it. Mr. Green also plays the guitar. He loves his guitar! He plays it like crazy for music and then for all sorts of other reasons during the day. He "punctuates" his points. "Interludes" his lessons. "Segues" his subjects. "Crescendos" his comments. What he really does is make tons of noise! Man, you should see his fingers fly! When Mr. Green plays, even Bubba Bixby listens. People may make fun of Mr. Green and call him the Happy Hippie, but I think he's the coolest teacher ever. He's funny and smart and nice. And while everyone else may think I'm nerdy or geeky or dweeby, Mr. Green thinks I shred. Which is what gave me the idea--and the courage--to become a secret cyber-superhero. Everything was going great, too! Shredderman had exposed Bubba for the bully he is and no one had a clue that I was Shredderman. Not even my mom or dad! Well, Mr. Green figured it out, but instead of turning me over to Dr. Voss, he begged to be my sidekick. "I'm going to be the best sidekick ever, Nolan!" he said. "But, Mr. Green..." It seemed too weird. Like I should be his sidekick. "And I've come up with a great name, too!" "A name?" "Yeah! The Bouncer!" "The Bouncer?" I asked him. "Why the Bouncer?" "Don't mess with Shredderman, man, or the Bouncer'll getcha!" "Oh," I said, trying to picture it. "So what do you look like? A big ball?" "No, man!" he laughed. "I look like a bouncer! Like one of those big cats that stands at the door to keep troublemakers out? Big muscles. Thick neck. Like a pro wrestler with tattoos." "The Bouncer has tattoos ?" He shook his head. "Skip the tattoos. But you've got the idea, right?" "Right." "You'd better draw me with short hair." He snapped his fingers. "Hey, why don't you make me bald all over." He grinned. "No one'll ever suspect it's me!" I went with the strong urge to rub my chin. "But why does Shredderman need a bouncer? He's Shredderman!" He leaned in close and whispered, " You need a bouncer, Nolan, and I'm your man." I shrugged. "Whatever you say, Mr. Green." "Hey! What if I come up with a theme song?" "A theme song? But that'll give away that it's you, won't it?" "Nah . . . I'll write something electric. Distort it . . . pitch-shift it . . . add special effects. . . . I promise-it'll be outtasight!" He eyed me. "You can load song clips on your computer, can't you?" "Uh-huh . . ." "So let me see what I can do. You're the boss, though. If you don't dig it, I'll trash the idea." He grinned at me. "Or write something better." So that's how I got myself a sidekick. And a theme song. The song's only about fifteen seconds when you boot up shredderman.com , but I like it. It shreds. Mr. Green has also helped me do new things with the site. It used to be "All Bubba, All the Time," but now it's got other stuff, too. Like a new Mystery Student every week, and joke contests, and riddles, and crossword puzzles. I keep Bubba's Big Butt posted for insurance, and I told Bubba in a Shredderman e-mail that it stays there until he starts being nice to people. Shredderman also gets e-mails from kids wanting me to add a joke to the Jokes link, or just asking, Who ARE you? Sometimes I even get messages from kids who want Shredderman to watch out for someone that's causing them trouble at school. Usually girls do this, which can get a little embarrassing. They always sign off, LOVE. So for a while everything was going great. Only kids from school knew about the site, which was fine with me. It kept me plenty busy, and besides, I didn't want all of Cedar Valley wondering who Shredderman was. But then something happened. Something that cried out, "Shredderman, we need your help!" And in the name of truth and justice I couldn't just stand by and watch. I had to do something! Excerpted from Attack of the Tagger by Wendelin Van Draanen All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.
Table of Contents
1 Shreddin' Sidekick | p. 1 |
2 Toasting Peanut Butter | p. 9 |
3 Du-uh! | p. 18 |
4 Toilet Bowl Spy | p. 26 |
5 The Can Turns Up | p. 35 |
6 Old Town | p. 44 |
7 Fighting Back | p. 53 |
8 Along for the Ride | p. 63 |
9 Mapping Out Evidence | p. 72 |
10 Spraying Cyberspace! | p. 81 |
11 Mistaken Identity | p. 89 |
12 Mom and Dad Boot Up | p. 98 |
13 Dirty Disguise | p. 110 |
14 Trash Sack Hero | p. 119 |
15 Up, Up, and Away! | p. 133 |
16 Busted! | p. 147 |
17 Truth and Justice Prevail! | p. 158 |