Out to Lunch #2 (Katie Kazoo, Switcheroo)
Grade 2-4-The premise is fantastical-a third-grade girl wishes she  were someone else, a wind blows up, and she becomes someone or  something else. In just 70-odd pages, Katie solves big problems  at school, just by her "switcheroos." In Anyone but Me, her  tenure as a hamster gives her insight into the class bully (who  turns out to be afraid of hamsters), and he is transformed into  a nice boy who loves to tell jokes and riddles. In Out to Lunch,  she turns into the nasty cafeteria woman, causes a food fight,  and comes up with a way to change the quality of the food. This  series could be a feminine contender to rival Dav Pilkey's  "Captain Underpants" series (Scholastic), but the writing is not  of the same caliber and the characters are less well drawn. It's  also more purposeful and less fun.Kay Bowes, Concord Pike  Library, Wilmington, DECopyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.