Krazyland by Mar Romasco-Moore
Published by Delacorte Press on September 13, 2022
ISBN: 0593431154
Pages: 272
Genres: Adventure, Fantasy, Humor
Format: Chapter Book Fiction
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Middle schooler Nathan is forced to go to a birthday party at his uncle’s Chuck E. Cheese’s style business and gets transported to an inter-dimensional realm through the ball pit where he encounters distorted fragments of his own reality. He and an employee named Mercy realize that the realm is less than innocent and have to figure out how to seal it up permanently.

This middle-grade adventure will be a hit with older fans of Goosebumps or younger fans of Stranger Things, and can only be described as a skee-ball and junk food induced fever dream. (But in a good way.) This book is funny, a quick read, and completely unpredictable. Maybe not the best for an over analytical young mind, but those who are willing to roll with nonsense will enjoy it.

Reviewed by Sarah Maciejewski, Patten Free Library, Bath