The Gecko and Sticky: Villain's Lair

The Gecko & Sticky are two of the most hilarious characters I have ever come across in literature. Sticky is the actual gecko and the “Gecko” is the superhero moniker of Sticky’s 13-year-old friend, Dave Sanchez. Confused? It makes sense when you read the book, whose tongue-in-cheek narrative style......more

This is an adventurous, mysterious, and real story about a boy named Dave and his talking gecko, Sticky. No, really, it's a true story! Sticky leads Dave to a scary old mansion that is booby-trapped with hollow walls and shrunken heads. They are there to steal a magic Aztec armband that is currently......more

Okay. First of all, when my mom put this book on hold for me at the library, I thought it was going to be a stupid book. But when I read my mom the flap I thought it sounded like a good book. My mom even said it sounded like something I'd write; I'm going to be an author when I grow up. I really lik......more

Silly fun with words and boy and gecko- I read this out of order (2,3,4,1) but what the heck. A lot that I thought might be explained wasn't (because if we're going to take a talking gecko at face value, well, why not, and maybe an 8 year old would enjoy the torture a bit more than I did, but it was......more

C. fiction, fantasy, adventure, children's fiction, grader 4-5; boy and gecko, a bit hoaky, but probably appealing to middle and upper elementary; series (The Gecko and Sticky, #1)......more