The story of Dan Greenburg's coming-of-age is riotously funny, disarmingly candid, and finally touching, Men will read this book and smile nostalgically, recalling their own only-slightly-more-ept-than-Greenburg adventures in dating. Women will read it with fascination at what really went on in some sectors of the enemy camp, and with the realization that perhaps they were better off as females than they'd thought.

A strange trip through a metal detector causes Zack's eighty-eight year old Grandma Leah to get younger and younger.

Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to save the planet before 10 pm (9:30 on school nights)... It's Maximum Boy! It's April Fools! Over and over and over again... That's right, some evildoer is playing pranks across the entire country! There are whoopee cushions on school buses. Silly glasses on the faces of Mount Rushmore. This prankster is pulling off some pretty peculiar plots! But who better to put a stop to these childish stunts than our eleven-year old superhero? In fact, he's already got some suspects. Like Super Sid -- the all-too-perfect superhero that everyone loves to hate. Or could there be a new bully at the heart of all this mischief and mayhem? Maximum Boy is on the case!

"Look! Up in the sky! It's a a bird! It's a plane! It's...it's...a UFO filled with cows from outer space?!! The President has sent Maximum Boy on another mission..."--Cover p. [4].

The Water People swim up from the bottom of the sea to take over the world and MAXimum Boy is chosen to defend Earth.

Book by Greenburg, Dan