About Bogus

Second in the alphabetical Aldo Zelnick comic novel series, Bogus follows the award-winning Artsy-Fartsy, which won ForeWord's 2009 Book of the Year Award in juvenile fiction, the 2010 Colorado Book Award and the 2010 Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Regional Book Award. 

Kudos

Bogus is the second in Karla Oceanak's series for young readers and it's wonderful. She and illustrator Kendra Spanjer have outdone themselves. Those of any age will read this and smile or even laugh out loud.
– Nancy Hansford, local authors writer for The Fort Collins Coloradoan

Another home run from Bailiwick Press – or should I say a "ringer." Bogus is a great adventure with a message of good karma and helping those less fortunate. Can't wait to share copies with my little Aldo followers.
– Jackie

Overall, the latest installment of the Aldo Zelnick series is just as good, if not better than the first. A perfect blend of entertainment and education. Karla Oceanak and Kendra Spanjer have shown again that they know exactly how to reach kids in that often, awkward time of life between being a ‘kid’ and a teenager. Aldo is hilarious, but absolutely real, a kid you could almost imagine walking through your front door at any minute.
– Julie, blogger and mom

Bogus

By: Karla Oceanak

Hardcover
Comic novel for kids
Published June 2010
For readers 7-13
160 pages
ISBN 978-1-934649-06-0
$12.95

 

Ten-year-old Aldo Zelnick had decided it’s OK to be a little artsy-fartsy. So when his grandma Goosy gives Aldo a second sketchbook, he fills it with more hand-drawn comics, fun B words, and accounts of his everyday adventures.
 
In Bogus, Aldo and his best friend, Jack, find a ring in the storm grate on their street. Convinced it's a fake, Aldo goofs around with the ring and loses it—only to find out it was a real diamond with a $1,000 reward. Will Aldo, Jack, and Bee find the ring again and reap the reward...or will their archenemy, Tommy Geller?

Awards

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Reviews

  • Numerous excellent reviews by book bloggers
  • Continued unsolicited teacher and librarian kudos
  • Fort Collins Coloradoan newspaper
  • The best kind: thumbs way, way up from our fans!