He’s faster than fast food! Crispier than Chex Mix! He’s . . . . Super Chicken Nugget Boy! When Fern Goldberg arrived at Bert Lahr Elementary School, he was just an average kid: nearsighted, a touch on the skinny side. Then he fell into the pool of radioactive green goo behind Bogie’s Burger Barn. Now whenever his skin comes into contact with condiments, he transforms into a bona fide, deep-fried superhero who’s not afraid to take on villains great and small, from the class bully to the giant, mutated French fry who threatens to crush the whole school beneath his massive, starchy feet . . . . Villainous vegetables beware! Here comes the most formidable food fighter in history!

He’s faster than fast food! Crispier than Chex Mix! He’s . . . . Super Chicken Nugget Boy! When Fern Goldberg arrived at Bert Lahr Elementary School, he was justan average kid: nearsighted, a touch on the skinny side. Then he fellinto the pool of radioactive green goo behind Bogie’s Burger Barn. Nowwhenever his skin comes into contact with condiments, he transformsinto a bona fide, deep-fried superhero who’s not afraid to take onvillains great and small, from the class bully to the giant, mutatedFrench fry who threatens to crush the whole school beneath his massive,starchy feet . . . . Villainous vegetables beware! Here comes the mostformidable food fighter in history!

When Fern Goldberg arrives at Bert Lahr Elementary School, he's just an average kid. Then he falls into the green liquid inside the pool-type container behind Bogie's Burger Barn. Now whenever his skin comes into contact with condiments, he transforms into a bona fide deep-fried superhero who's not afraid to take on villains great and small. And that includes the giant, mutant french fry that threatens to crush the whole school beneath its massive, starchy feet.

The nugget is back! After his tasty alter-ego felled the Furious Fry, Fern Goldberg went back to being his regular skinny self at Bert Lahr Elementary. But when a mad food scientist named Dr. Myron Ned-Grant--inventor of the thirty-pronged fork and other culinary contraptions--comes for a friendly school visit, Bert Lahr’s biggest bully Dirk Hamstone hits a very big sore spot, pointing out that “Ned-Grant” sounds kind of like “eggplant.” Tormented by his nasty nickname, poor Dr. Ned-Grant finally succumbs the dark side—that is, the dark purple side. Now it’s up to Super Chicken Nugget Boy to stop an army of evil eggplants bent on world domination! Villainous vegetables beware! Here comes the most formidable food fighter in history!

An exploration of the fast food industry in the United States, from its roots to its long-term consequences.

On the outskirts of Gordonville, deep in the heart of the burkeburke hills, lives a creature so strong, so fearsome and so meaty….Yes, that’s right meaty….that even the most fearless, tender and breaded of heroes might not be strong enough to foil him. He’s Massive Meatloaf Man. And once Fernando Goldberg gets a load of the meaty monster, he decides it may just be best to steer clear. But Dirk Hamstone has other ideas. He aims to find fame and fortune by luring the Loaf in and putting him on display. Does Dirk care that trying to tame the beefy barbarian is endangering himself, his classmates, and everyone else the maniacal meatman comes across – carnivore, vegetarian, or even vegan? Not a chance! It will take a whole lot of quick-thinking to cut the mustard—or, er, the ketchup—once this ferocious, succulent and sumptuous beast unleashes his fleshy fury onto the innocent citizens of Gordonville. Will Super Chicken Nugget Boy send the creature packing? Or will the Massive Meatloaf Man make mincemeat of the entire town?

'Chew On This' reveals the truth about the the fast food industry - how it all began, its success, what fast food actually is, what goes on in the slaughterhouses, meatpacking factories and flavour labs, the exploitation of young workers in the thousands of fast-food outlets throughout the world, and much more.

In Cory Doctorow's wildly successful Little Brother, young Marcus Yallow was arbitrarily detained and brutalized by the government in the wake of a terrorist attack on San Francisco—an experience that led him to become a leader of the whole movement of technologically clued-in teenagers, fighting back against the tyrannical security state. A few years later, California's economy collapses, but Marcus's hacktivist past lands him a job as webmaster for a crusading politician who promises reform. Soon his former nemesis Masha emerges from the political underground to gift him with a thumbdrive containing a Wikileaks-style cable-dump of hard evidence of corporate and governmental perfidy. It's incendiary stuff—and if Masha goes missing, Marcus is supposed to release it to the world. Then Marcus sees Masha being kidnapped by the same government agents who detained and tortured Marcus years earlier. Marcus can leak the archive Masha gave him—but he can't admit to being the leaker, because that will cost his employer the election. He's surrounded by friends who remember what he did a few years ago and regard him as a hacker hero. He can't even attend a demonstration without being dragged onstage and handed a mike. He's not at all sure that just dumping the archive onto the Internet, before he's gone through its millions of words, is the right thing to do. Meanwhile, people are beginning to shadow him, people who look like they're used to inflicting pain until they get the answers they want. Fast-moving, passionate, and as current as next week, Homeland is every bit the equal of Little Brother—a paean to activism, to courage, to the drive to make the world a better place. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Giffin's smash-hit debut novel--basis for the 2011 film--is for every woman who has ever had a complicated love-hate friendship.

Original publication and copyright date: 2009.