The Unflushables
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Super Mario Bros meets Captain Underpants in this action-packed comedy sure to make a splash!
James Patterson presents: The Titans of the Toilet! The Wonders from Down Under! Nitro City's very own sewer superheroes: The Plumbers!
Thirteen-year-old Sully Stringfellow has always admired the great plumber heroes of Nitro City. These wrench-wielding warriors guarded the sewers -- until they were discredited by the powerful Ironwater Corporation, which has a sinister scheme to take over the city.
Without the plumbers, Nitro is being overrun by mutant creatures -- and things are about to go totally nuclear thanks to the potentially explosive 50th Anniversary Burrito Festival! It's up to Sully and a league of long-forgotten plumber heroes to save the day, making it safe for all to flush again. It's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it!
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After a nefarious corporation wrests control of Nitro City's sewers, plumbers are banned, and mutant beasts begin emerging from drains. Since the toilets are constantly clogged at Gloomy Valley Middle School, 13-year-old Sully Stringfellow, who works after school as an "outlaw" plumber's helper, is recruited to apprehend the "Phantom Clogger" before Taco Tuesday, when, the principal says, "I need every stall open for business." The premise of Bates's (How to Make Friends and Monsters) satirical romp gives him free rein with potty puns, yet the humor extends further, fueled by Sully's wry asides, droll badinage, and a colorful cast that includes a retired super-villain who lives in a secret underground lair; Sully's crusty grandfather, member of a posse of crackerjack plumbers that guarded the sewers; and the boy's parents, off in Fiji, where his mother sells repurposed spatulas, and his poet father searches for a word that rhymes with purple. An explosive literally finale wraps up this lighthearted, swift-paced saga of good vs. evil in a slimy underworld. Ages 8 12.)
