Canned is a wonderful book about a boy named Fergal Bamfield who lives in England and collects cans. Yes, unlabeled, silver cans from the bargain basket at his local supermarket. His collection started with one can and ended up with fifty cans! (His mother got very annoyed with his hobby more than once in the story!) Fergal finds some very gross, creepy, and weird things in the cans that he opens. (I won't tell you what he finds because that would ruin the story!) While at the supermarket with his Mum one day, Fergal saw a can in the bargain basket he wanted. When he got there, another girl about his age grabbed for the can at the same time Fergal did. They fought over the can in the bargain basket but soon found out that they both do the same thing: Collect unlabeled, silver cans from the bargain basket. They figured out that they lived only 10 or 15 minutes away from each other also. Their mothers were both very happy that they could talk to someone else about their chid's "interesting" hobbies as they describe it. Fergal and Charlotte, (that's the girl's name) become great friends thanks to their hobby and together find that the things they have found in their cans go together. They find something very interesting in a can one day which leads them to have to go on a major can search which ends up getting them in trouble while trying to help someone else in trouble. This was a pretty good book. Two kids collect cans. In one of them, they fid a note thats says"help". In others they find a gold stud earring, gold ring, a human ear, and a human finger. On the bottom of the cans is a code. It always begins and ends with the same letters. While the girl is on holiday, the boy checks all the cans in the supermarket for the same code. Shortly later, he disappears. You find out that he found a matching code and went to the address on the can. Taking a peek inside the window, he sees children working at the machines. The machines are dangerous and have no safety conitions. They are all young children because the owners think that if there was an older child working there, they could be overpowered. When a child got too old, they would be killed. The bboy grabs some labels and a pen that one of the owners had dropped. He wrote a letter to the girl on it, knowing that she would pick up a a can without a label. To make the label fall off, he rubs a bit of the slimy dog food put into the cans onto the label. The girl recieves the letter and tries to tell her parents and the police, but they don't listen. Despite the boys warnings, she sets off a lone. She runs inside and opens the back door. The boy and her and a few other children run away with the owners behind them, throwing cans. The boy picks up a can and throws it, causing the owners to fall. THey run to the next village and tell the people what happened. The police come and rescue the children. The owners mysteriously dissapear. The children think that the owners fell into the machines and got killed because the children in the factory that the police found looked horrified. YOu don't know the answer, but a company going to clean the mess at the factory up sees the cans. The lead maan decides he could make money with them. He sells them to a m an who has a tent at the flea market. The man sells them to the boy's father. The father decides to give it to their cat. He takes it out, but there is a TOENAIL in it!
What do You think about Tins (2006)?
This book is so funny so far, the mystery of a can with no label...
—geo
Good mystery. The ending is a bit gruesome, I'm just saying....
—dallasmcgee
very strange plot, but still a good book.
—BookWorm`995
