喜欢偷溜的男孩和死亡之梨
Walter and Winston fancy themselves sporting gentlemen,who "snark out" every night--meaning,they sneak out of their apartments after their parents have fallen asleep,and go to an all-night movie theatre on Snark Street to watch double features of classic movies.
Walter,the narrator,has a superstitious mother and a father who is fanatical about avocados.He and Winston go to a miserable school where they are getting a very poor education,and on his first solo snarkout (while Winston is sick in bed) Walter makes a public speech about it in a park where a lot of people make speeches.This attracts the notice of a girl nicknamed Rat,who befriends the boys and introduces them to her eccentric but delightful family,including especially her Uncle Flipping Hades Terwilliger.I just love that name.
Uncle Flipping suddenly disappears,however,and Rat and the boys embark on an adventure through the seedier parts of town,joining forces with the greatest detective in the world (whose pro-wrestler body guard is Winston's Uncle Gorilla) to rescue Uncle Flipping from the clutches of a nefarious stuffed-fruit-bat throwing,orangutan-napping,egg-foo-yung-abusing,master villain who is in league with the aliens who have taken over the bodies of all the real estate brokers in the United States to destroy a giant avocado whose resonant energy has the power to send them all back into outerspace.It's a truly loopy mystery with a very cute ending,wonderful characters and scenes,and another Chicken Man to boot.