Middle-Grade Review: Margo Maloo - The Tangled Web

I am a huge fan of Drew Weing's creative, fun middle-grade graphic novel series. I enjoyed the first two entries in the series, The Creepy Case Files of Margo Maloo and its sequel, The Monster Mall (my reviews at the links). So, I was excited to see the release of book 3, The Creepy Case Files of Margo Maloo: The Tangled Web. It was just as much imaginative, creepy fun as the first two books!

Charles recently moved to Echo City when his parents bought a historic apartment building there. Discovering a large troll living in the basement (and stealing his Battlebeanz), Charles takes the advice of his new friend in the building, Kevin, and calls Margo Maloo, Monster Mediator, to help. It turns out that Echo City has a thriving monster community living in the shadows, underground, and in all kinds of places where humans are unaware of them. Margo, a smart, fierce kid, helps Charles with his troll problem and takes him under her wing, as he promises to always protect the monsters' secrets from adults and help her to mediate monster-human problems. In this third book, Margo is engrossed in her own project, so Charles is on his own. He and Kevin notice a teenager online who is trying to stir up trouble by giving away monsters' secret hiding places, and Charles discovers a family of giant spiders who are about to be destroyed by a massive human demolition project. What can Charles do on his own? And how can he get a message to Margo?

Sample pages from Margo Maloo: The Tangled Web

As always, Weing packs a lot of clever, imaginative fun into this third installment. His brightly colored drawings of Echo City and its unique monster residents provide plenty of entertaining details to peruse. Accompanying the unique drawings are a suspenseful, gripping storyline that keeps you turning the pages. And this time, while the spiders are saved and the immediate peril has passed, there is an ongoing mystery that can only mean ... a fourth book! I can't wait to read more adventures of Margo, Charles, and Kevin--and their monster acquaintances.

126 pages, First Second

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