More like 3.5-3.75. Much better than I was expecting. to be honest, I can't give this a 'fair' rating because it's a little young for me, but honestly, this reminded me of goosebumps so much, which I used to love. It had just a fun feeling to it, which I enjoyed so much. If I was in 4th grade, It...
Booklist (December 15, 2011 (Vol. 108, No. 8))Grades 3-6. Soon-to-be sixth-grader Billy Broccoli has a new family (his mother has recently remarried), a new school, and a new room, which unfortunately still bears the pink pony wallpaper of its previous occupant. It also comes with its own ghost, ...
Hank thought that getting through summer school to get to the fifth grade would be hard enough, but little did he know that it would get worse! Everyone in the fifth grade is starting to focus on a sport—and they’re really good. Everyone, that is, except Hank. When Papa Pete suggests that Hank ta...
Young Reader Reaction: I like this series, and this is another good Hank Zipper story. It just isn't my favorite. I would recommend all second graders and up to read this book especially the fourth graders since they can relate to it. This book is very funny because it shows how adults are always...
Hank is thrilled about the "Best Field Trip of the Year"-everyone from Ms. Adolph's class gets to spend the night on an old-fashioned three-mast sailing ship in New York Harbor! And Hank gets even more excited when the ship's captain chooses him to be the first mate. But being first mate is not...
Summer school are two words in the English language that Hank Zipzer doesn't want to learn. But there's no getting out of this one for Hank-summer school, here he comes! Will Hank have to spend the summer bored to death inside a sweltering classroom, or will he actually learn a cool lesson or two?
Sometimes we make judgments about a person based upon their looks, actions, speech and even their nationality. When we hear the word, disability, we might assume the person with a disability is weird or dumb. People from other countries are often considered peculiar and even unpleasant.The Oxford...
On Halloween day, Hank comes to school dressed in what he thinks is the perfect costume-a table in an Italian restaurant. Nick McKelty, the resident school bully (dressed in a total blood and guts costume), thinks Hank's costume is wimpy and that Hank wouldn't know how to be scary and gross if hi...
Inspired by the true life experiences of Henry Winkler, whose undiagnosed dyslexia made him a classic childhood underachiever, the Hank Zipzer series is about the high-spirited and funny adventures of a boy with learning differences. It's science project time in Ms. Adolf's class. This is good n...
It's report card day-the most dreaded day in Hank's school year. And when Hank gets his grades, they're his worst nightmare come true: a D in spelling, a D in reading, a D in math. After school, Hank and his friends go to his mom's deli. His mom is on the prowl-she knows a report card day when sh...
Hank?s dad has decided to enter a crossword-puzzle tournament, and he wants to make a family road trip of it! So the family piles into the car?along with Frankie and Katherine the iguana (Hank and Emily each get to bring a ?friend?). When they reach their destination, they?ll get to spend the day...
I heard myself holler. Oh no. That voice wouldn’t do. It sounded exactly like me. “Coming!” I repeated in my deepest, creepiest voice. “The spirits are preparing to let you in!” Oh yes. That was much better. Ashley dashed back into the haunted house and stuck her head through the hole in the card...
#17 CHAPTER 17 My dad looked over the papers in the manila folder for forty-five seconds, sat back, moved his glasses from his nose to up on top of his forehead, and said his most favorite word in the English language. You guessed it. NO. “No what?” I said. “I didn’t even ask anything.” “No on ev...
“Let me just say this, mister,” I told him in a stern voice. “Your apology is not accepted.” “You were embarrassing, Cheerio,” Ashley said. “And you wasted a lot of time.” “Listen to you guys,” Frankie said. “You’re worse than parents. The little guy feels bad on his own. He’s just a dog.” “Yeah,...
Papa Pete was quiet, which means he was waiting for my answer. “I could really go for a slice of pizza,” I said, trying to fill the silence. “Let’s go to Harvey’s. Afterward, I thought you might want to go hit some balls at the Ping-Pong Emporium.” “I think I’ll get the white pizza with spinach a...
I’m sure I don’t have to tell you that Frankie and I were not too excited to be there. I mean, it may have been a thrill for my nerdball sister to spend the morning looking at pictures of atoms and molecules, but for me, I could already feel my brain dozing off. It was only a matter of time befor...
Billy hurried home after school, his mind overflowing with ideas. It was his first official after-school get-together with his new friends, and he wanted everything to be perfect. He had decided to make three different kinds of peanut butter snacks — peanut butter on celery, peanut butter on roun...
We raced into the elevator and headed for my apartment. “Thanks for showing up,” I said to him as we watched the floor numbers change above the elevator doors. “I owed it to you,” said Frankie. “Why?” “I realized you got yourself into this mess for me. That’s why you took that cable box apart-bec...