Mr. Chickee's Messy Mission

Mr. Chickee's Messy Mission by Christopher Paul Curtis continues the adventures of Steven and his best friend Russell in this imaginative and creatively interconnected story. When Russell's dog, Rodney Rodent, disappears into a mural while chasing a demonic-looking gnome, the Flint Future Detectives......more

After the excitement and fame of surviving a two-hundred-and-fifty foot dive off a dam, Steven Carter’s father still expects him to do his chores. This included shovel the snow off his sidewalk and drive and do the same for his neighbors on either side of his house AND get up at four in the morning......more

"...one of the more beautiful things about having ignorance erased is that it leads to many more questions being asked. " —Mr. Chickee's Messy Mission, P. 97 I've got to hand it to the magnificent Christopher Paul Curtis; he sure can write a unique story! I really have never read anything else that......more

I was disappointed in Mr. Chickee's Messy Mission. The beginning had me hysterically laughing, but as the plot moved along it became more and more uneven to me. Perhaps my imagination is just not what it used to be, but I had a hard time getting into the better part of the Ourside section.......more