REGARDING THE SINK
Where, oh Where, Did Waters Go?
by Kate Klise & illustrated by M. Sarah Klise
This amusing sequel to Regarding the Fountain (1999) parodies politics, business, and beans. The cafeteria sink at Geyser Creek Middle School is clogged and stinky. The sixth-graders want Florence Waters to design a replacement, perhaps one that includes an aromatherapy bar or a bean demolisher. But Florence is missing! She vanished on a trip to China investigating the rare Sinkiang Blinking Spotted Suckerfish, and the sixth-graders are determined to find her. Meanwhile, the price of ice cream skyrockets, school lunches are replaced with beans, and AIR-igate, Inc. promises to replace unexpected weather with man-made nighttime rain. The intrepid heroes must rescue Florence, solve the mysteries of beans and Spotted Suckerfish, and get a new sink for the school cafeteria, all on their class trip’s budget. Told in letters, notes, news reports, and drawings, a pun-filled adventure loaded with fun. (Fiction. 9-13)