The Order of Odd Fish / James Kennedy / 403 pages

A ruby palace in the middle of the desert, an aging ex-movie star aunt, a Christmas costume party, an overweight Russian who journeys around the world at the behest of his digestive tract, a talking 3 foot tall cockroach...  To say this book is unusual would be an understatement.  13-year-old Jo Hazelwood must deal with it all.  Could she be the monster feared by the city of Eldritch and the knights of the order of odd fish?  Sometimes reading like a thesaurus, this book is a great vocabulary builder.  Humorous to a fault, the book certainly requires the reader to suspend disbelief.