The Lost Colony, Book Two

The Red Menace

The Lost Colony (Volume 2)

Grady Klein

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“A zany cast of slaves, ex-slaves, capitalists, opportunists, inventors, and just plain regular folk lead the way through this colorful and delightful tale. . . .” –VOYA
 
In The Red Menace, the much-awaited second installment of The Lost Colony series, the beloved and not-so-beloved islanders confront war profiteering, the Indian Wars, and other unwelcome visitors to their hidden realm.
 
Grady Klein cooks up a fresh serving of shocks and delights in this one-of-a-kind take on American history.  Along with magic potions, stage tricks, and farting contests, be prepared for tragedy, controversy, and even shameful secrets.  And of course, plenty of reasonably priced merchandise. 
 
It’s wintertime on the island, and The Lost Colony explodes with intrigue in a chilly palette of pastel shades, splashed with the patriotic red, white, and blue.  In this continuing feast for your eyes and mind, human nature plays out in all its grim hypocrisy and hilarious contradiction—and just like most things on the island, the Red Menace itself isn’t what it seems. 

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Praise for The Lost Colony, Book Two

Review in August 2007 issue of Booklist

In The Snodgrass Conspiracy (2006), the first volume of the Lost Colony, Klein's insightful satire of white privilege and the pillaging of North America's preceding inhabitants, little Birdy Snodgrass dealt with slavery in the candy-colored world of the island in the Megabuk River. Now Birdy's evil father, who is both the island's governor and banker, addresses the "Injun problem" in cahoots with the mysterious Dr. Pepe Wong and an imposter claiming to be storied frontiersman Johnny Crevasse. Despite the pastel scenery, sometimes blotted with blood or crude song lyrics, this is neither children's story nor adolescent fantasy. Its ideal reader should have a solid grasp of nineteenth-century American history, including the mythology that inspired double-crossing native peoples and fostered bland naïveté in politically weak frontier towns. Willingness to suspend PC tsk-tsking comes in handy, too, for both enjoying and being horrified by Klein's skewering re-enactment of the bad old days by figures who could have walked out of Saturday-morning TV cartoons.

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Grady Klein is an award-winning freelance illustrator, designer, and animator.  His work, which includes the animated short DUST BUNNY, has appeared in print and on screen all over the world.  THE LOST COLONY 2 is his second book.

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The Lost Colony, Book Two
The Red Menace
The Lost Colony (Volume 2)
Grady Klein

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May 2007
Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781596430983
ISBN10: 1596430982
6 x 8 1/2 inches, 128 pages
Age Range: 14 and up
Grade Range: 9 and up
$16.95
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