Finally a book for children that is written for children with fun and craziness. Agatha live on Odd Street and goes to Odd Street School. Agatha has crazy hair and that is who she is. She has her friends who also live on Odd Street. Bianca, Martha, Ivy and Ellie. She also has a teacher that changes her hair color every week. In this book Agatha and her friends are tasked to take care of newly hatched chicks. Unfortunately one of the 13 goes missing. What happens from there is fun with a little mystery thrown in. This is a good 5th grade and up book for children to read themselves or for younger children around 5 and up for a chapter book to be read to. Chapters are short and illustrations are sure to make children laugh.

I found this book to be incredibly interesting and easily to adapt in a classroom setting.

This is the 3rd book my daughter has red by this author and she loved it even more than the other 2. She loves Agatha's personality and I think because it's similar to her own. I have finally found a series that will hold her attention.

When you open a book and before you even get to the first chapter you read a statement that says ""No chickens were hurt during the course of writing this book, because chickens are good and we LIKE chickens" you know the book is going to be a little bit quirky and a lot of funny.

Living in Odd Street and going to Odd street school are a group of friends - Agatha with the wild hair, Bianca the bubble blowing trombone player, Ellie the scared one, Ivy who would eat spiders over cabbage, and, Martha who searches the couch cushions for old potato chips. Now we are all introduced the book begins "Hiya! I hope you like books written by somebody who once tipped a whole box of cornflakes over her head. That's me!"" Agatha then goes on to tell the reader (that's you and me) that she is not completely crazy but it is at this stage that I was beginning to think there was going to be at least some craziness.

It all begins with something new happening at Odd Street School and when Agatha learns that it has to do with eggs and incubators the excitement begins. To get those chickens to hatch there is even a chicken song (that you will need to discover for yourself) that was sang so much that it became very annoying to some people (not me, I promise!). The chickens before and after they hatched created a lot of excitement at the school and when Agatha and a couple of her friends were chosen to look after some chicks for a weekend that is when the hilarity and mayhem began.

Now to tell you anymore about what happens would be spoiling it for you but I will say I like the character names in this book. With characters called Miss Wizzit, Mrs Twelvetrees, Miss Barking, Mrs Potts (the lunchroom lady) Miss Pingle, Poor Old Motley, and Miss Bunn you now there is going to be creativity in their personalities and each of them added a unique angle to the story line.

With a purple chicken, dreams of mammoth chickens, lumps in the wallpaper and Agatha Parrot you and your child are bound not to want to put this book down.

A great read for tweens and highly recommended by me.