Milo Speck, Accidental Agent, by Linda Urban
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Milo Speck, Accidental Agent, by Linda Urban
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When magic came to Milo Speck, it came in the form of a sock. “Figures,” said Milo. So begins Milo’s adventure in Ogregon, a place populated with hungry ogres, dino-sized turkeys, kidnapped kids, and—Dad? What’s Milo’s regular-old salesman father doing in Ogregon? For that matter, how did a shrimp like Milo end up there? He’s no hero. He can’t help those kids. Right? But there’s no time for Milo to get the answers. After all, hungry ogres like nothing more than a tasty bite of boy, and what kid is going to stick around for that? A fast escape back home to Downriver is all that matters—until Milo realizes that what’s really afoot in Ogregon goes far beyond an ogre quest for snack food. And his own family may be somehow mixed up in the dastardly plot. But what can a small boy in a very big world possibly do about that?
Milo Speck, Accidental Agent, by Linda Urban- Amazon Sales Rank: #117444 in Books
- Published on: 2015-09-01
- Released on: 2015-09-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.90" h x 1.10" w x 5.80" l, 1.00 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 272 pages
From School Library Journal Gr 4–6—Milo Speck has read about magical adventures, and now he finds himself quite unexpectedly in one after a search for a missing sock in the dryer transports him to a land of ogres with a penchant for eating humans. There are many surprises and revelations in store for Milo in Ogregon, including the truth about his father's "fencing" job. He comes to believe that his father is also in Ogregon, and sets out to find him so they can escape together. Along the way he meets Tuck, a girl about his age with a prickly personality, and together they must survive long enough to stop a plot to develop dryers that will pull even more human children through to Ogregon to become ogre-food. Humor and action abound in this fast-paced adventure with plenty of twists and turns to keep readers interested. The ogres' sheer size makes up for their often hilarious ineptitude, and Milo is an engaging, relatable character who finds hidden depths when tested, whether it's riding a giant turkey or convincing the stubborn Tuck to help him. The tale wraps up satisfactorily but with the possibility for future adventures with the Tuckerman Agency. VERDICT An entertaining choice that will appeal to fans of Roald Dahl and Eva Ibbotson.—Amanda Raklovits, Champaign Public Library, IL
Review “Inventive, funny, and flat-out delightful. An absolute joy.”—Rebecca Stead, Newbery Medalist for When You Reach Me “Reading Linda Urban's Milo Speck, Accidental Agent, is like encountering again the dangerous hilarity of Roald Dahl, the quick playfulness of Jules Feiffer, and the poignant heart of Jean Merrill. The adventures are madcap, the language funny as all get out, the villains horrendously evil—as they should be. But what is most wonderful of all is the story of how a tiny speck of a boy grows into his truest self—a self neither he nor the reader had ever anticipated.”—Gary Schmidt, Newbery Honor winner and National Book Award finalist “With the ingenious, witty, and utterly delightful Milo Speck, Accidental Agent, Linda Urban has given us a contemporary masterpiece. This book is a joy.”–Anne Ursu, author of The Real Boy and Breadcrumbs "Milo is a well-detailed character with a strong moral code, making him easy to root for.”—Kirkus "Clever humor and daring rescues will keep readers glued to Milo's adventures and hoping for future ones."—Publishers Weekly "Humor and action abound in this fast-paced adventure with plenty of twists and turns to keep readers interested...An entertaining choice."—School Library Journal "Urban spins a tale both comical and surreal."—Booklist "Milo finds his inner hero in a hectic and hilarious series of revelations, chase scenes, and near-death experiences...Urban gives nods to Roald Dahl, Edward Eager, and Norton Juster, but her material is unique...You can't beat the premise."—Horn Book Magazine
About the Author Linda Urban's debut novel, A Crooked Kind of Perfect, was selected for many best books lists and was nominated for twenty state awards. She is also the author of Hound Dog True, a Kirkus Best Book of 2011, the acclaimed The Center of Everything, and the fantasy-adventure Milo Speck, Accidental Agent. A former bookseller, she lives in Vermont. www.lindaurbanbooks.com
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. A Clever Story, But the Violence and the Mother Ogre Telling Her Baby "Shut Up" Cost This Book a Star ... By delicateflower152 “Milo Speck: Accidental Agent” is a fun-filled adventure that in which a malfunctioning clothes dryer, a boy in search of his father, evil ogres, betrayal, and the triumph of good over evil combine for an entertaining read. Linda Urban’s clever wordplay, squabbling characters, and unlikely action scenarios are enjoyable and entertaining.When there is only one giant yellow sock in the laundry basket, Milo Speck searches for its mate in the family’s SuperDry200. He finds himself pulled into a dark tunnel and falls into the land of Ogregon. There Milo learns that the ogres are searching for Tuckerman’s Right-Hand Man whose photo reveals that man to be Milo’s father – Milo thought his father was a salesman for Tuckerman Fencing. As he searches for his father in the halls and departments of the Home Office, Milo discovers the captured “Tuck” Tuckerman – head of Tuckerman Fencing. She is a girl his own age and assumed the head of the company after her father’s death. The two join forces to save several other captive children, thwart the plans of the evil Dr. El to supply the ogres with a steady stream of edible boys, and finally to reunite Milo and his father.Readers who are familiar with various literary works will recognize some of similarity between those novels and “Milo Speck: Accidental Agent”. Just as Alice did in “Alice in Wonderland” and “Through the Looking Glass”, Milo travels through time and space to a different world. As in “Gulliver’s Travels” and Gulliver’s experience with the giants in Brobdingnag, Milo must contend with the significant size difference between himself and the inhabitants of Ogregon. The ogres “squash” victims rather than eating them like the giant did in “Jack and the Beanstalk”, but the concepts are similar. The clever names of the Home Office Departments in Ogregon are reminiscent of those in “Harry Potter” and the book’s Ministry of Magic.While I enjoyed much of “Milo Speck: Accidental Agent”, there were several aspects that I did not care for. The ogre mother repeatedly told her baby to “shut up”. A number of clever, but very gruesome songs the ogres sang about eating or crushing boys were equally disturbing. Some violent scenes in which the ogres prepared to crush captives did not seem appropriate for the target age group – 9 to 12 year olds. I did not care for the way in which Linda Urban added "-esque" to the end of a number of words instead of using another word choice having the same meaning, but one that was a "real" word. It is for these reasons and for the many similarities to works of classic literature that I rated “Milo Speck: Accidental Agent” as a 4-star read.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Delightful Dahl-esqe fantasy adventure for younger middle grade readers By Sandy Kay I am much much older than the target audience for this book, but it grabbed me from the opening paragraph and pulled me into a story about a very small boy sucked into a world of hilariously doltish (but dangerous) ogres. The story had a very familiar feeling of both tongue-in-cheek absurd humor and heart but it wasn't until reading the author's note at the end that I realized why -- one of the writers she credits for inspiration is Roald Dahl. It would be a disservice to compare any writer to the great Roald Dahl, but younger readers who like the kind of humor found in books like The BFG, should really enjoy this book as well.Milo Speck, is an unlikely hero. He is small for his age and his "Grandmother" dresses him in ridiculous clothes that she buys on clearance. As this book opens, he is wearing a googly-eyed duck sweatshirt that "quanks." Through an unlikely act of magic, Milo arrives in Ogregon where he has to avoid becoming an ogre snack. (The "magic" in the book is mostly confined to the passage between the regular world and Ogregon, though there is brief discussion of some other "magical" creatures in other parallel lands. The characters themselves don't do magic.)I thought this book was full of silly fun and would recommend it for readers on the younger end of the 9-12 age range. It would also be appropriate for even younger children whose reading level is beyond their years. Older children might like it as well, especially if they aren't yet ready for the more mature Young Adult books.Best of all, boys should enjoy this adventure with Milo as the main character using his wits and heart to survive the ogres. Girls will enjoy it as well, but I always like to find books that I think will appeal to boys to encourage them to read more.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. this plot driven story is full of moments of whimsy By Gaele Milo is a dreamer and he instantly brings us into his world. With his mother dead and his father off on yet another business trip, he’s doing one of his chores, sorting socks. And like anyone who has sorted a basket of socks, there is always one that isn’t quite right. Although the spare sock that Milo finds is too large and far too yellow, with strange powers of its own.Milo is whisked through the dryer vent with the yellow sock, and transplanted to Ogregon, where boys are a tasty delicacy and his father’s boss, and even possibly his father, the door-to-door fence salesman are wanted criminals. Ogres have plans to ‘squash’ his father the very next day!Oh this was fun, from Milo’s very ordinary chore opening a door to adventure and discovering just how much more he is capable of than he ever thought, A hole between the worlds show Milo that Mr. Tuckerman, his father’s boss is really Tuck, his daughter, and nothing is quite the same anymore.With doors between the worlds that closed with buttons then laces and now zippers, this plot driven story is full of moments of whimsy. While the characters are clever, the real joy is in the multi-layered plot that pulls you from one adventure to the next. Nothing is quite as it seems, and to some people, all the strange goings on that Milo notices are simply normal. Several twists, humor and a genuine fantastical topsy turvy new world, this is a fun middle grade fantasy adventure read.I received an eArc copy of the title from the publisher via Edelweiss for purpose of honest review. I was not compensated for this review: all conclusions are my own responsibility.
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