| Author | Illustrator | Publisher |
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| Basil Sylvester | Kevin Sylvester | Harper Collins |
How can one fashion-forward kid with a penchant for monsters find a long-lost manuscript, have an amazing road-trip, and make great new friends? Well, if you are Zed Watson nothing is impossible!
Zed Watson is on a mission to find the lost manuscript, The Monster’s Castle. They think that they are on the right track until a simple question rocks Zed’s world and they find themselves on a totally different path. This time, though, Zed is not alone. Taking a road-trip of a life-time, Zed solves clues, find new friends, and gains new insights into what being the fabulous Zed Watson is all about.
Questions:
- Zed’s parents are pretty awesome the way they open their home to so many people and friends, what are some of the rules and traditions of the Watson household?
- Zed’s journey starts with one goal, to find the missing manuscript. What else does Zed gain along the road?
- At times, it seems Zed can be pretty focused only on Zed, what does it take for Zed to start appreciating and sharing with others?
- What is so important to you that you would take off on a long road-trip like Zed did?
- Zed is pretty resilient, but sometimes their resiliency wobbles. How does Zed get it back? Do you have any tricks and tools to get your resiliency back on track?
Reviews:
SD20 Webster Elementary Red Cedar Readers
The Fabulous Zed Watson is a mystery novel where Zed and his friend Gabe go on a wild adventure looking for the rest of the text from a monster novelist. This book had twists and turns galore! It also had LGBTQ+ representations. I recommend this book to anyone who likes a good mystery and is Grade 5+. I hope you enjoy this book like I did.⅗.
I like this book. I liked this book for many reasons and some of them are the mystery and thrills and the non-binary representation. My favourite part was the humour. It had lots of short funny bits which I liked. There were lots of thrills and lots of mystery throughout the book. I would recommend this book to Grade 4 and up. I rate this book 4.
This is a really good book. It’s a Red Cedar and a fiction book. It’s about a non-binary kid who does something cool with a friend. I recommend this book for ages 10 and older. I rate this book a 5/5.
The book The fabulous Zed Watson was a boring book. In my opinion it was boring but some parts in the book were sort of funny. I recommend it to Grades 4-7 to read this book. Overall, I rate this book a ⅖.
This was a fabulous book. I really enjoyed reading this book and related to the characters. This is a realistic fiction book with nonbinary representation in it. If you enjoy reading books with treasure hunting, humour and monsters in it, this is the book for you. I recommend this book for 10 years and up and rate it a 5/5. I would definitely re-read it.
This is a decent Red Cedar book. I has good characters and nicely sized print. If you are a person who enjoys books about books (for real!) and monsters, then this is the book for you. For an age range for this book, I would say between the ages of eleven and thirteen. I enjoyed this book and I hope that you do too.