Lizard Music

An ALA Notable Book Kids ages 9-12 will “delight in [the] oddness” of this Home Alone -style tale set in the 1970s—from a prolific children’s author who captures “a magic that’s not like anyone else’s ” (Neil Gaiman). With Victor’s parents out of town, he is free to investigate the mysterious lizard musicians who have recently appeared on TV . . . Things Victor loves: pizza with anchovies, grape soda, B movies aired at midnight, the evening news. And with his parents off at a resort and his olde