Dave Dickens is not an ordinary boy... He is very special, indeed! He loves Science (even though he doesn’t have a mobile phone!) and he always wants to discover interesting things like farting dogs or flesh-eating maggots...
This time, a new problem appears... At Dave’s school, many kids are getting sick and vomit. It all starts from Banger Bates (Edward is his real name).
Paul is Dave’s best friend. His mom is working at the school cafeteria. Banger’s dad blames the school dinner for making his son sick (“My son was sick at school, and sick again when he got home. This is the evidence. A bucket with my son’s vomit in it.”). So, what does that mean? Bingo, you got it! If the school dinners are blamed, that meant that Paul’s mom is blamed! Paul’s mum’s job was at risk! Dave can’t let such a thing happen! Not at all! That’s why he must be in action (again!).
Kevin, Dave’s annoying cousin, is staying with him. Sharing a room with someone from your family is no fun! Especially when he/she has to stay for two weeks! Kevin has a strange imagination; he thinks that he is a detective like James Bond or Sherlock Holmes (“Poisoning! Fantastic! We shall find some clues and work out who the poisoner is!”)... This irritates Dave... But what can you do when your parents are watching you to see if you do something bad to a member from your family just because he/she annoys you? To tell the truth, in the beginning Kevin irritated me, too, even though I was not in the story! I wished he could stop with this entire “detective-being” thing... Like Dave said: “Having Kevin staying with us was going to be a Living Nightmare!”
Dave tries to get some vomit to put under his microscope (remember when I told you that Dave loves Science?) so he can study it. He must prove that Paul’s mom didn’t do absolutely anything to make Banger and some of the other kids sick... He is getting angry when Kevin makes his own detective club with some kids with the same age as him... Dave doesn’t want to see Kevin in trouble, even though he doesn’t like him so much...
Believe it or not, but Kevin turned out to be quite helpful in this “case”, like he says... With his friends, he spies Banger. He finds out that this bully (I think you know who...) didn’t even eat the school dinners the day he got sick... He, let’s just say, pretended! He showed some Bandit Cards to some little kids and that’s how they got sick...
The problem is that Dave and Paul can’t prove this. They can’t just say that they’ve spied Banger and heard him saying this...
Finally, the “detectives” come up with a brilliant idea! They can steal Shelly’s phone (Shelly is Banger’s new girlfriend) and swap it with Krystal’s phone (Dave’s sister). Krystal and Shelly (who are best friends) have an identical phone (“Because Krystal’s got a phone that’s absolutely identical! It’s got dreadful pink and yellow swirling patterns all over it, and it’s exactly the same make and model. Krystal got the same one as Shelly when they were best friends.”)...
They will text Banger from Shelly’s phone and ask him about this “vomit case”. When Banger will say that he did all these (making himself and the kids sick and so on...), Dave and Paul will send Banger’s text on the school address (on the internet) and... the problem will be solved!
Let’s not forget that if you want to be successful on something, you must be a truly good detective! Dave and Kevin (with their tricks) get Shelly’s phone and Paul texts Banger. The professors from school are angry and upset on Banger, they leave Paul’s mom job at the school cafeteria and well, everything turns out to be just fine (“Things were back to normal.”)!
I liked this book because Dave shows that he is a truly good friend with Paul... He saved his mother’s job. It’s not so easy to do such a thing like this, believe me! Anyway, if you are looking for an intelligent mind and a useful microscope, you can count on Dave Dickens (maybe on Kevin a bit, too – he still made some work in all this case, didn’t he?)!
Remember: don’t READ this book if you get sick of anything disgusting quite easily! You don’t want to vomit on this book, do you? But one thing is for sure: Dave is NOT disgusting (only his older sister, Krystal, doesn’t think so!)! :D
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