Humphrey, the class hamster, spends the summer at camp (with co-class pet Og the Frog). He reports on the events that occur. There are regular summer camp events that go on, but not one big dramatic build up. As an adult, I found the storyline slow and not especially exciting. The book is more a...
Another great book in this series! I liked that there's a new set of students (new school year), with a new set of issues to deal with-keeps the story fresh. The old students make an appearance here and there, which was a nice way to connect the two school years. This one dealt a lot with learni...
I really liked it because the book was hilarious. I liked how the book had funny words in it like Humphrey would say "unsqueakably thankful" which is meant to be "unspeakably thankful". I thought it was funny when Og's best friend Humphrey was giving Og a very tasty frog present which was froggy ...
The World According to Humphrey is a heart-warming tale that I only recommend to those who are prepared to seriously consider hamster ownership. Humphrey is the class pet of Room 26, and he is the most intelligent and handsome hamster around. The story begins with Humphrey in crisis; the curren...
After the holidays, Humphrey is shocked by a big surprise in Room 26-a new class pet! Humphrey tries to be welcoming, but Og the frog doesn't respond to any of his friendly squeaks or visits (remember, he has a lock-that-doesn't-lock). Plus, the students are so interested in Og, they almost stop ...
Humphrey usually helps solve problems, but now he’s caused a big one: Golden-Miranda gets in trouble when Humphrey is caught outside of his cage on her watch. No one knows about his lock-that-doesn’t-lock and he can’t exactly squeak up on her behalf. While Humphrey manages to show Pay-Attention-A...
E. After Mrs. Wright left, Mr. E. said, “We’ve had enough Mathketball for today. But if I’m here again tomorrow, we’re going to have a Word War!” My friends seemed excited about that, but I was worried. Wasn’t Mrs. Brisbane coming back tomorrow? Whe...
A.J. announced the next night in the Blue Jays’ cabin. They’d worked extra hard to win me for the night. “We’re getting mas sacred by the Bobwhites, all because of that stupid Sam. Why’d he have to come to camp?” “Yeah,” Richie agreed. “Why didn’t he go to that camp Brad’s always bragging about? ...
I squeaked to my neighbor once we were alone. Og splashed loudly. “She said no other hamster can measure up to me,” I said. “BOING-BOING!” I was pretty sure Og agreed with her. ...
You can imagine my surprise when they continued to think of nothing but boats all weekend, too! Mr. Brisbane read about model sailboats, sketched them and worked on them in his garage workshop. Meanwhile, Mrs. Brisbane kept busy writing things on a piece of paper. Every once in a while, she’d sto...
After a while, Sophie returned with her father. “See, Dad,” she said, running to my cage. “It’s Humphrey! Isn’t he cute?” Mr. Kaminski followed her and bent down to look in my cage. “Where is he?” he asked. I poked my head ou...
But there was so much going on that morning, I didn’t have time to settle in for a doze until the strange students left for recess. But my nap didn’t last long, because when the students returned, I heard Mrs. Brisbane talking and she sounded WORRIED-WORRIED-WORRIED. “Harry didn’t come back,” she...
Even though she acted angry, I don’t think Mrs. Brisbane thought his prank was that bad. After all, it was very clever of him to think of recording the bell. True to his word, Jeff Herman stopped by our classroom late in the day. He showed us pictures of very cool fire engines with noisy sirens, ...
We had a meeting about it yesterday and I found out that the theme is “Circus Night”. Each class is supposed to come up with a circus-themed game or activity.’ ‘I think we should string a rope across the gym and all do tightrope walking,’ Tell-the-Truth-Thomas said. ‘Do yo...